Illinois Personal Injury Lawyer Blog
For years, the big cereal companies have been telling us that a bowl of whole grain oat cereal for breakfast is a healthy way to start our day. Turns out maybe it isn’t.
A recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has uncovered a toxic chemical, chlormequat, in popular oat cereals like Cheerios and Quaker Oats.
Chlormequat should not be in our food supply. It is an agricultural chemical used to limit plant growth, making a plant sturdier and easier to harvest. In the U.S., the chemical is banned from being used on any food crops. However, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inexplicably decided in 2018 to allow foods grown with chlormequat to be imported into the United States.