By Lori Elliott Jarvis, Lawrence DeMeo, Thomas Waskom and Elizabeth Reese ( October 23, 2018, 3:23 PM EDT) -- The nonprofit Environmental Working Group has teamed up with several major food companies to petition the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the tolerance level for glyphosate residue in oat-based products to a level 300 times lower than EPA's current level. The petition, filed Sept. 27, 2018, also urges EPA to ban preharvest use of glyphosate as a drying agent. Eight food companies joined in the petition: Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., Happy Family Organics, MegaFood, MOM's Organic Market, National Co+op Grocers, Nature's Path Foods Inc., One Degree Organic Foods and Stonyfield Farm Inc....
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