Roundup herbicides found in organic wines are considered unavoidable

Glyphosate, the chemical poison in Roundup has been detected in organic wines, in a new study of wines and beers from the US.
5 samples of wine and 15 beers were tested by research group US PIRG looking at the contamination of glyphosate. The found all the beer and 4 out of 5 wines contained glyphosate, the key poison used in Round up.

The highest concentration of glyphosate was Sutter Home 2018 Merlot at 51 parts per billion (ppb), while Frey's Organic Natural White had 4.8 ppb. Organic brands don’t use herbicides, however Frey Vineyards, has said that it is almost impossible to completely avoid contamination as glyphosate can now be detected in rainwater. Other wine brands tested included Beringer, Barefoot and Inkarri.

William Reeves, a toxicologist for Bayer, which owns Roundup manufacturer Monsanto, claims that a 125-pound adult would have to consume 308 gallons of wine per day, every day for life to reach the US Environmental Protection Agency’s glyphosate exposure limit for humans, assuming a level of 51.4ppb to begin with, he told USA Today.
Meanwhile French President Emmanuel Macron has restated his belief that French vineyards can stop using glyphosate-based weed killers, though he has accepted he will fall short of his original aim to ban the controversial product altogether. A recent case of a groundsman in the US successfully sued Monsanto over his cancer and it was deemed 'probably carcinogenic' by the World Health Organisation in 2015.