Taiwan Recalls QUAKER OATS After Finding TRACES OF GLYPHOSATE

Taiwan has recalled Quaker Oats after a random inspection by the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) detected glyphosate in amounts exceeding the nation’s legal limits in 10 out of 36 products.

Sorry Quaker Oats- its been a rough month. First- the company had to deal with the class action law suit filled in May (due to trace amounts of glyphosate, the toxic ingredient in Roundup, being detected in its products) and now this: Taiwan has ordered a Quaker Oats recall.

Around 137,000 pounds of oatmeal has been recalled, with most of it coming from the US. The items had to be pulled after the agency’s first random inspection of oatmeal products imported into Taiwan’s market were found to have glyphosate- and Taiwan has zero tolerance policy for glyphosate levels in oatmeal products. But, according to the Taiwanese FDA, the amount of glyphosate in a shipment of Quaker Oats products exceeded acceptable levels of the herbicide. Of the 10 products tested, they were found to have glyphosate residue levels between 0.1 parts per million (ppm) and 1.8 ppm.

The products containing excessive glyphosate include:

Old Fashioned Quaker Oats
Quaker Quick 1-Minute Oats
Coach’s Oats
Bob’s Red Mill Instant Rolled Oats
Fifty-50 Hearty Cut Oatmeal
McCann’s Imported Irish Oatmeal
Australia Fine Oat Flakes

(The U.S. glyphosate residue limits cannot exceed 30 ppm, Japan and the EU’s is 20 ppm, Canada’s level is 15 ppm, and in Australia it’s just 0.1 ppm.)

In Taiwan, commercial cultivation of GMO crops is banned- well done Taiwan- and anything containing GMOs has to be labeled by law. The government even went so far as to ban schools from serving GMOs to students, citing health and safety concerns. Again, well done Taiwan. It’s amazing to see a country care more for its citizens than for some company who just wants to make massive amounts of cash on the backs of dead people.

For its part, Quaker has defended itself in a statement to The New York Times:

“Any levels of glyphosate that may remain are trace amounts and significantly below any limits which have been set by the EPA as safe for human consumption.”

Well then, you eat it Quaker. I’ll pass.