No More Glyphosate NZ is an independent, community-funded project focused on transparency around glyphosate use, residues, and regulation in New Zealand. We investigate how pesticides, food production, and policy decisions affect public health and consumer clarity — so New Zealanders can make informed choices in a system that often hides the detail.
Does glyphosate bioaccumulate? The answer is more complicated than a simple yes or no. We examine what animal studies actually show about glyphosate uptake, tissue distribution, retention and bioaccumulation — and why those terms shouldn't be treated as interchangeable.
Roundup has been sold in New Zealand for decades, but the regulatory history behind its active ingredient, glyphosate, stretches back to 1975. Has glyphosate ever undergone a comprehensive reassessment under New Zealand’s modern hazardous-substances framework?
We’re told glyphosate results below 0.010 mg/kg can be too uncertain to be meaningful. But we’ve learned that honey producers themselves use more sensitive testing for a very practical reason: blending. If those low-level results are useful enough for industry to make commercial decisions, why shouldn’t consumers be allowed to know them too?
We tested another five retail honeys for glyphosate, AMPA and glufosinate. Glyphosate was quantified in four of the five samples, with all results below New Zealand’s applicable MRL.
We independently tested four Ploughman’s breads for glyphosate. It was detected in every one, ranging from 16 to 43 ppb — with one of the highest results found in a gluten-free loaf containing no wheat.
Organic. Natural. Certified. Independently tested. Food labels are designed to influence what we buy — but what do those claims actually tell us? We look at Commerce Commission guidance and the questions consumers should be asking.
Glyphosate-resistant weeds helped create the need for new herbicides such as Icafolin. But can new chemistry solve resistance — or does it simply restart the cycle? We look beyond the molecule to what Icafolin could mean for the future of weed control.
“Pesticide-free”, “residue-free” and “not detected” can sound absolute. But laboratory tests have reporting limits, and testing the same food more sensitively can reveal residues that were previously invisible. We look at what these claims actually mean — and why how closely you look matters.
New Zealand has removed hundreds of tonnes of old and unwanted agrichemicals from rural properties — including DDT. But banning a pesticide doesn't automatically make existing stocks disappear. So what happens to the chemicals already sitting in farm sheds?
Our latest independent honey testing found glyphosate in four of five samples tested. The highest result was 59.7 ppb in J.Friend & Co Beechwood Honeydew, while glyphosate was also detected in one of two certified-organic honeys.
New Zealand is proposing mandatory pre-sale testing to prevent asbestos-contaminated children's sand reaching consumers. The Government calls it a “targeted and precautionary approach”. What does that principle tell us about the continuing regulation of glyphosate?
What if the timing of glyphosate exposure matters as much as the dose? Emerging research into early-life DNA damage, developmental exposure and disease latency raises an important question: if effects do not appear for decades, how would New Zealand know without routine human biomonitoring?
