Florida first lady Casey DeSantis said her Healthy First initiative found “triple-digit” levels of the weed killer glyphosate in popular bread brands. Should you be worried?
Trace amounts of glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical, are found in many foods at a fraction of safety limits set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Healthy Florida First initiative, led by Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, found that a slice of bread from one brand contained 191.
04 parts per billion of glyphosate, which she characterized as a high level. But this amount of glyphosate is far below safety thresholds. Even if the average adult ate around 18,850 such slices every day, it would still be within the safety limit."Glyphosate is a weed killer," DeSantis said."It’s the main ingredient you find in Roundup and other weed-killing brands. It's designed to kill plants, it is not meant to be eaten."DeSantis said warning labels on products containing glyphosate include emergency instructions for exposure,"and make clear these products are not meant for people to touch, not meant to be in the food and certainly not meant to be consumed, and yet here we are today with these findings."is 191 parts per billion. That might sound scary, but it’s only a tiny fraction of the trace amount of glyphosate the government says food can safely contain. Chemicals in food — even those found in weed killers — are not necessarily harmful, experts said. Today’s food tests are sensitive enough to detect minuscule amounts of different substances. And that’s how much glyphosate was identified in the Health Florida First bread tests: trace amounts. "Based on the weight of evidence, these are not particularly high or dangerous levels of glyphosate," said Norbert Kaminski, a toxicologist and director of the Center for Research on Ingredient Safety at Michigan State University.When we asked the governor’s office about the first lady’s remarks, a spokesperson directed PolitiFact to the Florida Department of Health, which did not reply to our request for comment. Healthy Florida First says the department conducts its food tests using independent, third-party labs. The group so far hasn’t publicly identified those labs, its testing protocols, or methodology.Glyphosate is widely used in agriculture to control weeds and grass, which is why trace amounts find their way intohas shown pesticide residue in over 60% of U.S. food samples, but the vast majority of the samples — more than 97% — contained residue within federal regulatory limits.and how it breaks down over time, the EPA determines how much pesticide residue food can contain without harming people. The FDAits tests, which evaluated popular bread brands such as Nature’s Own and Wonder Bread, found glyphosate levels ranging from non-detectable to 191.04 parts per billion. Parts per billion measures extremely low concentrations 1,000 times smaller than parts per million. For example, one part per billion equals 1 cent in $10 million or 1 second in 32 years.Even if a person weighing 150 pounds ate about 18,850 slices of bread with glyphosate levels at 200 parts per billion, every day, it would still be within a glyphosate consumption range that’s considered safe.DeSantis cited product labels that warn about accidental exposure to chemicals such as glyphosate. "There is a major disconnect between a chemical labeled as unsafe to ingest and its quiet presence in everyday food like bread," she said. But experts told PolitiFact it’s misleading to compare product warning labels for raw or concentrated chemicals — like those found in pesticides you can buy at a hardware store — with the trace amounts that might be found in food. The concentration of glyphosate in commercial weed killers, for example, is estimated to be tens of thousands to millions of times higher than the traces in some foods after environmental degradation and food processing. The chemical warning labels typically indicate hazards or risks from direct, high-level exposure to these concentrated substances, such as swallowing a pesticide solution or having it sprayed in your eyes. Take trisodium phosphate. Google it, and you’ll get ads for heavy-duty cleaning products used to prep walls before painting. We"the dose makes the poison," meaning the toxicity of a substance in large, raw amounts doesn’t necessarily translate to it being dangerous in broken down, minute amounts. "The level of exposure is what matters," Kaminski said."Every chemical, including water and table salt can be toxic at a high enough dose, but we don’t typically add warning labels for these." Email interview, Norbert Kaminski, toxicologist and director of the Center for Research on Ingredient Safety at Michigan State University, Feb. 9, 2026“Durante su presentación en el Super Bowl, Bad Bunny le regaló su premio Grammy a Liam Conejo Ramos”, el niño de 5 años que fue detenido por ICE. During the Super Bowl halftime show, “Bad Bunny brought Liam Conejo Ramos onto the stage,” the 5-year-old detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s “backlog of unanswered disaster assistance applications has exploded to the largest in its history.” Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro “was releasing people from his prisons and sending them to our southern border under the Biden administration.” In Florida, “68 to 70% of property tax revenue” is from “second homes, investment properties, commercial properties, Airbnb,” not primary residences. On Jan. 6, 2021, 274 FBI agents were “probably acting as agitators and insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘law enforcement officials.’”A book on Amazon titled “The Shooting of Charlie Kirk” with a Sept. 9 publication date is evidence the event was staged. “Durante su presentación en el Super Bowl, Bad Bunny le regaló su premio Grammy a Liam Conejo Ramos”, el niño de 5 años que fue detenido por ICE.During the Super Bowl halftime show, “Bad Bunny brought Liam Conejo Ramos onto the stage,” the 5-year-old detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis.
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