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May 21, 2021 06:00 PM EDT
According to a new University of Michigan study, exposure to a chemical discovered in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is greatly linked to preterm births.
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Exposure to Glyphosate
The study, released in Environmental Health Perspectives, discovered that the appearance of the chemical in the urine of women in late pregnancy was associated with an increased risk for untimely birth, while the connection was inconsistent or ineffective during the early stage of the pregnancy.
Professor of environmental health sciences and also senior associate dean for research at the U-M School of Public Health, senior author John Meeker said: Since many people are prone to some level of glyphosate and may not even be aware of it, if our outcomes reflect true connection, then the public health implications could be massive. Monica Silver - first author led the study while she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Sch