New Russian studies reveal serious damage to mice fed GMO Soy

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New Russian studies reveal serious damage to mice

fed GMO Soy

 

>Wed, 9 May 2007 21:45:10 -0700 (PDT)

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>New Russian studies reveal serious damage to mice fed GMO Soy

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>1.RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS PRESENT NEW DATA ON THE IMPACT OF GMOs ON ANIMAL HEALTH

>2.Russian researchers present new data on negative influence of GMO

>on human health

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>NOTE: Two reports - via Dr Brian John - of a new study in Russia -

>reported at a news conference last month for the Russian media and

>now reported for the first time in English thanks to GM Free Cymru.

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>EXTRACT: Russian biotechnologist Maria Konovalova... said the

>Monsanto Roundup Ready GM-soy used during the tests on rats and mice

>caused serious mutilations of their internal organs (liver, kidneys,

>testicles) and in histological and cellular construction. Besides,

>it influences the number of babies in a litter, caused increased

>death rates among descendants, and results in increased

>aggressiveness and loss of maternal instinct. (item 2)

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>1.RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS PRESENT NEW DATA ON THE IMPACT OF GMOs ON ANIMAL HEALTH

>By Eremurus Club

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> " The results of new research of the impact of GMOs on living

>organisms question the idea of their safety " said Alexander Baranov,

>president of All-National Association of Genetic Safety at the

>press-conference that was held on the 16th of April in Moscow. At

>the event the results of new experiment made in the Vavilov's

>Agrarian University of Saratov (regional capital on Volga river) by

>the members of the association were presented to public. The

>research demonstrated serious pathological defects in experimental

>mice fed on GM-soy.

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>As Maria Konovalova (engineer-biotechnologist, post-graduate who

>conducted the experiment under the supervision of doctor of

>medicine, professor V.Blinov) reported at the press-conference, a

>herbicide resistant RoundUp Ready Monsanto soy (variety 40-3-2),

>approved for human consumption in the Russian Federation and in many

>other countries, induced serious changes in the morphology of

>viscera (liver, kidney, testis) of mice, in their histological and

>cell structures. GM-soy also is found to impact the size of

>litters, and the mortality of the young. Soy is already assumed to

>provoke an increase in aggressiveness and a loss of maternal

>instinct.

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> " Mice that were fed by protein from GM soy demonstrated different

>behaviour. Some of the females in the GM soy group suffocated their

>young and then ate their brains. And it is also very sad that we

>identified abnormalities in the young mice whose mothers were fed on

>GM soy, " said Maria Konovalova.

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>At the press-conference Baranov reported that his association has

>sent an Open Letter to the Chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennadi

>Onischenko, whose department is responsible for controlling the

>safety of GM food. The NGO urged him to temporarily revoke the

>authorization of approved GM food in Russia and to declare a

>moratorium on the registration of new varieties until full data

>related to GMO impacts on human health is available.

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>2.Russian researchers present new data on negative influence of GMO

>on human health

>http://www.regnum.ru/english/813298.html

>(translation from several sources)

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> " Results of our research on the effects of GMOs upon living

>organisms indicate that they are not harmless, " President of the

>National Association for Genetic Safety Alexander Baranov said at a

>news conference held at the REGNUM press center in Moscow today.

> " This research must form the basis for serious reflection at

>official governmental institutions, " Baranov said.

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>Members of the association presented the results of research

>conducted at Vavilov Agriculture University (Saratov). The research

>registered pathological deviation in experimental animals that ate

>GMO. As author of the test, Russian biotechnologist Maria

>Konovalova, who was personally conducting the research, said the

>Monsanto Roundup Ready GM-soy used during the tests on rats and mice

>caused serious mutilations of their internal organs (liver, kidneys,

>testicles) and in histological and cellular construction. Besides,

>it influences the number of babies in a litter, caused increased

>death rates among descendants, and results in increased

>aggressiveness and loss of maternal instinct.

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> " In mice fed on a protein isolated from GM-soy, there has been an

>increase in the weight of internal organs, " she says. In addition,

>there has been an increase in aggressive behaviour by females

>towards their young. The really sad thing is that we found

>deformities and abnormalities in mice whose mothers drank GM-soy. "

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>Maria Konovalova submitted a photo of a typical mouse from the GM

>test group which had been fed on GM soy for 5 months, and another

>photo of a mouse from the control group fed on normal soy. The

>difference in bodyweight and general condition was apparent, with

>the GM-fed mouse apparently in very poor condition.

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>At the press conference, President OAGB Alexander Baranov also said

>that the association sent an open letter to the chief sanitary

>doctor of the Russian Federation Gennadi Onishchenko. " The letter

>asks for the suspension of already approved GMOs in food products

>and the declaration of an interim moratorium on the registration of

>new GMOs to fully determine their effects on the human organism, "

>said Baranov. " It was surprising to see that in our country, where a

>number of GM lines is allowed in the food supply, none of those

>lines have been fully explored, " concluded President OAGB. According

>to him, the RAMN Nutrition Research Institute recently confirmed

>that the overwhelming majority of GM-lines have been tested in only

>one generation of rats.

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> " Only in one case was there a two generation study, " said Alexander

>Baranov. " Methodical medical-biological guidance on assessing GM

>food products was signed by the same Onishchenko in 2000, and

>researchers are encouraged to check 5 generations of the test

>animals. But at the moment, there is a terrible situation: we feed

>our children food which no one can claim to be one hundred percent

>safe, " says President OAGB Aleksandr Baranov. " We do not want to

>seek scapegoats. In our letter to Gennadi Onishchenko, we propose

>concrete measures for a speedy solution to the problem. "

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>As REGNUM reported earlier, in October 2005, Russian reseracher Dr.

>Irina Ermakova made public the results of her experiment that showed

>that genetically modified soy affects posterity in rats.

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>See: http://www.gmfreecymru.org/pivotal_papers/ermakova.htm

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