Paxton Targets Bayer Over Glyphosate in Kids' Food
Texas Attorney General
@KenPaxtonTX has opened legal action against Bayer and other corporate giants for glyphosate contamination in food, targeting a loophole that major food companies have been using to spray glyphosate on oats sourced from countries where the practice is permitted even as the EPA prohibits it domestically.
Oats treated this way end up in the cereals, breakfast bars, and cookies that children eat every day.
@JeffereyJaxen walks through why children are the central concern. A 2025 study found that children are particularly vulnerable to glyphosate exposure because of immature liver and kidney function that reduces their ability to metabolize and excrete the chemical, and because they consume more food relative to body weight than adults, accelerating bioaccumulation.
Paxton's investigation is also examining whether major food companies have misled consumers about the health claims of products marketed to families.
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo has separately launched a public initiative testing glyphosate levels in bread to give parents the information they need to make purchasing decisions.
Iowa has become a focal point: the state has the nation's second-highest cancer rate and applied 53 million pounds of pesticides last year, and, for the first time, candidates from both parties running for governor and Secretary of Agriculture have made rising cancer rates and nitrate-contaminated water central campaign priorities.
The political class is following the people, not the other way around.
Attorney Brant Wisner, who brought Monsanto to its knees in the 2018 Dwayne Johnson trial and triggered the avalanche of 170,000 glyphosate cancer lawsuits now threatening Bayer's survival, is now investigating atrazine. The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified atrazine as a probable human carcinogen at the end of 2025. The EPA responded by echoing Syngenta's own criticisms of the finding. Wisner Baum has opened an investigation into whether farmworkers, pesticide applicators, and rural families were exposed for decades without adequate safety warnings.
Atrazine has been detected in drinking water sources across agricultural communities nationwide for years and is banned in most developed countries outside the United States. Syngenta should be watching what happened to Bayer very carefully.
Also reported: ICAN has filed a petition pressing the FDA to require that direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising disclose all risks alongside benefits equally, not just major risks, using model regulatory language drafted by ICAN attorneys.
The United States and New Zealand are the only developed countries that permit DTC drug advertising at all. The American Medical Association has called for an outright ban.
@ICANdecide is asking for the next best thing: full informed consent on every ad.