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--- On Sat, 7/26/08, mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net> wrote:

> From: mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net>
> Subject: [GJM] Fw: [globalnetnews-summary] New Study Links Monsanto's Roundup to Cancer
> To: nadiasindi at gmail.com, "Jim Bell" <jimbellob at hotmail.com>, FixGov at yahoogroups.com, "Discussion Forum for Global Justice" <discussion at globaljusticemovement.net>
> Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008, 2:44 PM
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> Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] New Study Links
> Monsanto's Roundup to 
> Cancer
> 
> 
> 
> New Study Links Monsanto's Roundup to Cancer
> PRESS RELEASE - 22 JUNE
> http://www.organicconsumers.org/Monsanto/glyphocancer.cfm
> 
> A recent study by eminent oncologists Dr. Lennart Hardell
> and Dr. Mikael
> Eriksson of Sweden [1], has revealed clear links between
> one of the
> world's biggest selling herbicide, glyphosate, to
> non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a 
> form
> of cancer [2].
> 
> In the study published in the 15 March 1999 Journal of
> American Cancer
> Society, the researchers also maintain that exposure to
> glyphosate
> 'yielded increased risks for NHL.' They stress that
> with the rapidly 
> increasing use
> of glyphosate since the time the study was carried out,
> 'glyphosate
> deserves further epidemiologic studies.'
> 
> Glyphosate, commonly known as Roundup, is the world's
> most widely used
> herbicide. It is estimated that for 1998, over a 112,000
> tonnes of
> glyphosate was used world-wide. It indiscriminately kills
> off a wide
> variety of weeds after application and is primarily used to
> control annual
> and perennial plants.
> 
> 71% of genetically engineered crops planted in 1998 are
> designed to be
> resistant to herbicides such as glyphosate, marketed by
> Monsanto as
> Roundup. Companies developing herbicide resistant crops are
> also
> increasing
> their production capacity for the herbicides such as
> glyphosate, and also
> requesting permits for higher residues of these chemicals
> in genetically
> engineered food. For example, Monsanto have already
> received permits for a
> threefold increase in herbicide residues on genetically
> engineered
> soybeans
> in Europe and the U.S., up from 6 parts per million (PPM)
> to 20 PPM.
> 
> According to Sadhbh O' Neill of Genetic Concern,
> 'this study reinforces
> concerns by environmentalists and health professionals that
> far from
> reducing herbicide use, glyphosate resistant crops may
> result in increased
> residues to which we as consumers will be exposed in our
> food.'
> 
> 'Increased residues of glyphosate and its metabolites
> are already on sale
> via genetically engineered soya, common in processed foods.
> However no
> studies of the effects of GE soya sprayed with Roundup on
> health have been
> carried out either on animals or humans to date,' she
> continued.
> 
> The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
> statistics from 1997
> show that expanded plantings of Roundup Ready soybeans
> (i.e. soybeans
> genetically engineered to be tolerant to the herbicide)
> resulted in a 72%
> increase in the use of glyphosate. According to the
> Pesticides Action
> Network, scientists estimate that plants genetically
> engineered to be
> herbicide resistant will actually triple the amount of
> herbicides used.
> Farmers, knowing that their crop can tolerate or resist
> being killed off
> by
> the herbicides, will tend to use them more liberally.
> 
> O' Neill concluded: 'The EPA when authorising
> Monsanto's field trials for
> Roundup-ready sugar beet did not consider the issue of
> glyphosate. They
> considered this to be the remit of the Pesticides Control
> Service of the
> Department of Agriculture. Thus nobody has included the
> effects of
> increasing the use of glyphosate in the risk/benefit
> analysis carried out.
> It is yet another example of how regulatory authorities
> supposedly
> protecting public health have failed to implement the
> 'precautionary
> principle' with respect to GMOs.'
> 
> ENDS
> 
> Further information: Sadhbh O' Neill at 01-4760360 or
> 087-2258599 or
> (home) 01-6774052
> Notes
> 
> [1] Lennart Hardell, M.D., PhD. Department of Oncology,
> Orebro Medical
> Centre, Orebro, Sweden and Miikael Eriksson, M.D., PhD,
> Department of
> Oncology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, 'A
> Case-Control Study of
> Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Exposure to Pesticides',
> Cancer, March 15, 1999/
> Volume 85/ Number 6.
> 
> The findings are based on a population-based case-control
> study conducted
> in Sweden between 1987 - 1990. The necessary data was
> ascertained by a
> series of comprehensive questionnaires and follow-up
> telephone interviews.
> Dr. Hardell and Dr. Eriksson found that 'exposure to
> herbicides and
> fungicides resulted in significantly increased risks for
> NHL'.
> 
> [2] Lymphoma is a form of cancer that afflicts the
> lymphatic system. It
> can occur at virtually any part of the body but the initial
> symptoms are
> usually seen as swellings around the lymph nodes at the
> base of the neck.
> There are basically two main kinds of lymphoma, i.e.
> Hodgkin's disease and
> non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
> 
> The incidence of NHL has increased rapidly in most Western
> countries over
> the last few decades. According to the American Cancer
> Society, there has
> been an alarming 80% increase in incidences of NHL since
> the early 1970's.
> 
> 
> 
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