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> Robert Cohen <notmilk wrote:

> notmilk

> Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:01:22 -0000

> NOTMILK - Payback

>

> Payback

>

> It took over five years, but government regulators

> have once again proven that they often go about

> conducting their business by following the same

> traditional code as Cosa Nostra 'Goodfellas':

>

> " We don't get mad. We get even. "

>

> *****

> Friday's (July 16, 2004) Headline:

> Health Canada fires 3 scientists

>

> OTTAWA - Health Canada has fired three scientists

> who criticized the department's drug approval

> policies.

> *****

>

> Hey--I know these guys. Shiv Chopra, Margaret

> Haydon, and Gerard Lambert. These are the three

> heroes who stared down Monsanto in 1999 and, despite

> a bribe attempt (reported by Canadian TV show, Fifth

> Estate), were instrumental in denying approval of

> Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth

> hormone in Canada.

>

> It took five years to fire these heroic men and

> woman of conscience. Five years of performing under

> the harshest microscope. Five years of having to

> deal with bureaucratic anger and pressure. Five

> years of living under the gun.

>

> Gerald Lambert had worked at Health Canada for 31

> years. This is not the opportune time for a career

> change. His termination letter cited him for

> " failing to follow orders and showing a lack of

> progress in his work. "

>

> On January 14, 1999, Health Canada announced that it

> would not approve Monsanto's genetically engineered

> bovine growth hormone for sale in Canada. The Acting

> Director General for Policy, Planning and

> Coordination of Canada's health

> protection branch, Health Canada (the Canadian

> equivalent of America's FDA), issued the official

> report. In his denial, acting director Joel Weiner

> wrote:

>

> " It (rbST) presents an unacceptable threat to the

> safety of dairy cows. "

>

> In the official denial of Monsanto's application

> there was no mention of any concern for human health

> and safety issues, yet for the six-month period

> prior to official denial, Canadian newspapers and

> television news shows have made this

> application the most controversial drug application

> in Canadian history.

>

> Canadian scientists, led by Shiv Chopra, Margaret

> Haydon and Gerard Lambert, came forward with an

> official complaint after reviewing partial Monsanto

> research data. They accused their superiors of

> pressuring them into approving Monsanto's hormone

> without having full access to Monsanto's research

> data.

>

> When these scientists obtained the research, they

> discovered that laboratory animals got cancer from

> Monsanto's drug, a technical tidbit that America's

> FDA seemed to have missed. Oops!

>

> Health Canada issued a well-publicized " Gap Report. "

> That report considered many of the issues raised in

> my first book, MILK-The Deadly Poison. For example,

> a pasteurization fraud resulted in the original

> approval of rbST in America. That research was

> originally performed in Guelph, Ontario, and

> first reported by me. I have worked closely with

> officials of the Canadian government during the past

> two years, seeing to it that they reviewed the

> " smoking guns. "

>

> The key study leading to BST approval in the USA was

> the " Richard, Odaglia and Deslex report. " That study

> was not reviewed by America's FDA until nearly two

> years after rbST's approval. In 2001, I discussed

> this key evidence with Senator Eugene Whelan, the

> Chairman of the Canadian Senate committee reviewing

> Health Canada's approval process. I worked with

> environmental groups, seeking to have the actual

> study acknowledged.

>

> Canada's Watergate-Style Break-In

>

> During the Canadian review process, the safe

> containing the study was broken into. Files were

> stolen. However, the courageous scientists who were

> just fired had an opportunity to review the 90-day

> study and discovered that laboratory animals treated

> with this food additive had gotten cancer. What had

> been stolen? The smoking-gun second half of the

> study! Every American review board (FDA, USDA, NIH,

> etc.) refers to this key study as a 90-day study.

>

> In fact, the study lasted for 180 days and all the

> animals got cancer. FDA reported no biological

> effects. The Canadian scientists found a number of

> different cancers including colon and prostate

> cancers. I knew that they would. I had been their

> guide.

>

> Time has passed, and there seems to have been a lot

> more at stake than just human safety during the

> Canadian review. Perhaps it was also more than just

> " business and politics as usual. " As Monsanto's

> hormone dies a painful death in the American market,

> the work of these three Canadian national heroes has

> been forgotten.

>

> For them, it's payback time. Five years have passed,

> and few people remember the courageous actions and

> enormous integrity of these individuals. They were

> guilty of looking out for their fellow man. They

> made the mistake of placing the health interests of

> Canadians and Canadian cows over their own careers.

>

> Now, they are paying the ultimate economic price.

> Three out-of-work heroes who have earned Canadian

> medals of valor, not unemployment checks.

>

> Robert Cohen

> http://www.notmilk.com

>