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This article was first published by Sustainable Pulse in 2016

The Munich Environmental Institute (Umweltinstitut München) has released shocking results (February) of laboratory testing it has completed on 14 of the most sold beers in Germany. The probable carcinogen and World’s most used herbicide – glyphosate – was found in all of the 14 beers tested.

German Beer – Glyphosate Testing Results:

Hasseröder Pils – 29,74 μg/l (ppb)

Jever Pils – 23,04 μg/l

Warsteiner Pils – 20,73 μg/l

Radeberger Pilsner – 12,01 μg/l

Veltins Pilsener – 5,78 μg/l

Oettinger Pils – 3,86 μg/l

König Pilsener – 3,35 μg/l

Krombacher Pils – 2,99 μg/l

Erdinger Weißbier – 2,92 μg/l

Paulaner Weißbier – 0,66 μg/l

Bitburger Pils – 0,55 μg/l

Beck’s Pils – 0,50 μg/l

Franziskaner Weißbier – 0,49 μg/l

Augustiner Helles – 0,46 μg/l

In 2015 the World Health Organization’s cancer agency IARC declared that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen.

The German Brewers’ Association, reacted by calling the study by the Munich Environmental Institute “not credible”, but admitted that low residues of the probable human carcinogen glyphosate could not be prevented, because “the herbicide is now found virtually everywhere after decades of use in agriculture”.

Sustainable Pulse Director Henry Rowlands stated Thursday: