WTF MonSatan!!!
http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/apr07/damage_from_gm_corn.php
A new study done by French scientists suggests that Monsanto’s
genetically modified corn MON863 causes toxicity to the liver and
kidneys. This is the first instance of an approved GM product
demonstrating negative health effects on internal organs.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has agreed to review
the new study in late March. The EFSA had looked at MON863 in 2004,
when a German study suggested kidney toxicity. They found no
evidence to indicate that MON863 was unsafe.
Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini worked with the group CRIIGEN in
Caen, France as they examined data from safety tests performed by
Monsanto in seeking approval to market MON863 in the EU. The study
was published March 13 in Archives of Environmental
Contamination and Toxicology. Seralini found symptoms of
poisoning and organ damage in rats that were fed MON863. His
findings refute Monsanto’s report, which studied 400 rats for 90
days and determined that MON863 was harmless.
Pest-resistant MON863 was approved for feed in August 2005, and
for human consumption in January 2006. In spite of the controversy,
the corn product has been allowed in markets in the EU, US,
Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico and the Phillipines.
The data from the Monsanto study was suppressed until Greenpeace
secured the evidence through a court order.
Seralini noticed “significant deficits in the statistic
evaluation” of the report. “Monsanto’s analyses do not stand up to
rigorous scrutiny,” he said, referring to questionable protocols, a
short time frame for the study, and the concealing of important
data from urine tests. “With the present data, it cannot be
concluded that GM corn MON863 is a safe product.”
Professor Seralini found the discoveries “profoundly disturbing”
and sufficient to call for an immediate ban on MON863, as well as a
moratorium on other approved GMOs until current health testing
methods are reassessed.
An editorial in Food Navigator.com stated, “News that a
variety of GM corn produced signs of liver and kidney toxicity in
rats should be a wake-up call for better testing and more
transparency from biotechs, if GMOs are to be accepted by
increasingly skeptical consumers.”
(Sources: DeutscheWelle, Le Monde, Food
Navigator.com)
