“In certain circumstances”, some farmers use the pesticide to dry the plants “a few weeks before the harvest”, acknowledges Kellogg in a message posted on his website.
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Kellogg, the American company famous for its breakfast cereals, wants to eliminate by 2025 the use of glyphosate on wheat and oats which it uses in its products like Smacks, All Bran or Special K. Weedkillers are already not widely used on these cereals, which are not genetically modified to resist them.
“In certain circumstances”, some farmers use the pesticide to dry the plants “a few weeks before the harvest”, recognizes Kellogg in a message posted on its website and intended to answer customers’ questions. The humidity level being regulated, this technique allows them to lower it more quickly before harvesting, which can be useful if thunderstorms are forecast.
“Although this practice is not widespread in our wheat and oat supply chains, we are working with our suppliers to phase out the use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying agent (…) in our main markets, including in the United States, by the end of 2025 “, underlines the company. It is not specified when this text, unveiled Monday by Washington Post, has been published.
The Working Group on the Environment (EWG) welcomed this decision which would reduce the residual presence of glyphosate, most often sold under the brand name Roundup, in breakfast bowls. In three series of tests conducted in 2018 and 2019 on products containing oats from the brands Kellogg’s, General Mills and Quaker, the association found traces “in practically all the samples analyzed”, she says.
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