In the news this week: aminopyralid:
Aminopyralid is an herbicide that may have made its way into some manure destined for home gardens and may have resulted in inferior produce. Interestingly, they think it’s in manure not because of topical contamination, but via animals that ate contaminated silage:
It appears that the contamination came from grass treated 12 months ago. Experts say the grass was probably made into silage, then fed to cattle during the winter months. The herbicide remained present in the silage, passed through the animal and into manure that was later sold. Horses fed on hay that had been treated could also be a channel.
Tell me this: if you were a microbe, wouldn’t you munch on that? Or if you were a liver, wouldn’t you glycosylate that? I will admit to huge swaths of empty space where my understanding of pharmacokinetics/xenobiotic metabolism should be, but I’m surprised it makes its way out unscathed.