Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage

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Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage

by Rady Ananda / January 3rd, 2010

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In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study

of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health,

researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize.

 

 

All three varieties of GM corn, Mon 810, Mon 863 and NK 603, were approved

for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety

authorities. Made public by European authorities in 2005, Monsanto’s

confidential raw data of its 2002 feeding trials on rats that these researchers

analyzed is the same data, ironically, that was used to approve them in

different parts of the world.

 

 

The Committee of Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN)

and Universities of Caen and Rouen studied Monsanto’s 90-day feeding

trials data of insecticide producing Mon 810, Mon 863 and Roundup® herbicide

absorbing NK 603 varieties of GM maize.

 

 

The data “clearly underlines adverse impacts on kidneys and liver, the

dietary detoxifying organs, as well as different levels of damages to heart,

adrenal glands, spleen and haematopoietic system,†reported Gilles-Eric

Séralini, a molecular biologist at the University of Caen.

 

 

Although different levels of adverse impact on vital organs were noticed

between the three GMOs, the 2009 research shows specific effects associated

with consumption of each GMO, differentiated by sex and dose.

 

 

Their December 2009 _study_

(http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm#headingA11) appears in the International

Journal of Biological Sciences (IJBS).

This latest study conforms with a _2007 analysis_

(http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/gp_briefing_s\

eralini_study.pdf) by

CRIIGEN on Mon 863, published in Environmental Contamination and

Toxicology, using the same data.

 

 

Monsanto rejected the 2007 conclusions, stating: “The analyses conducted

by these authors are not consistent with what has been traditionally

accepted for use by regulatory toxicologists for analysis of rat toxicology

data.â€

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In an email to me, Séralini explained that their study goes beyond Monsanto

’s analysis by exploring the sex-differentiated health effects on mammals,

which Doull, et al. ignored:

 

 

“Our study contradicts Monsanto conclusions because Monsanto

systematically neglects significant health effects in mammals that are

different in

males and females eating GMOs, or not proportional to the dose. This is a very

serious mistake, dramatic for public health. This is the major conclusion

revealed by our work, the only careful reanalysis of Monsanto crude

statistical data.â€

 

 

Other problems with Monsanto’s conclusions

 

 

When testing for drug or pesticide safety, the standard protocol is to use

three mammalian species. The subject studies only used rats, yet won GMO

approval in more than a dozen nations.

 

 

Chronic problems are rarely discovered in 90 days; most often such tests

run for up to two years. Tests “lasting longer than three months give more

chances to reveal metabolic, nervous, immune, hormonal or cancer diseases,â€

wrote Seralini et al. in their Doull rebuttal.2

 

 

Further, Monsanto’s analysis compared unrelated feeding groups, muddying

the results. The June 2009 rebuttal explains, “In order to isolate the

effect of the GM transformation process from other variables, it is only valid

to compare the GMO … with its _isogenic_

(http://www.isogenic.info/html/isogenic.html) non-GM equivalent.â€

 

 

The researchers conclude that the raw data from all three GMO studies

reveal novel pesticide residues will be present in food and feed and may pose

grave health risks to those consuming them.

 

 

They have called for “an immediate ban on the import and cultivation of

these GMOs and strongly recommend additional long-term (up to two years) and

multi-generational animal feeding studies on at least three species to

provide true scientifically valid data on the acute and chronic toxic effects

of GM crops, feed and foods.â€

 

 

Human health, of course, is of primary import to us, but ecological

effects are also in play. Ninety-nine percent of GMO crops either tolerate or

produce insecticide. This may be the reason we see _bee colony collapse

disorder_ (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va & aid=8436) and

massive _butterfly deaths_

(http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_\

engineering/environmental-effects-of.html) .. If

GMOs are wiping out Earth’s pollinators, they are far more disastrous than

the threat they pose to humans and other mammals.

 

 

Further Reading

 

 

_Health Risks of GM Foods_

(http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/GeneticRoulette/HealthRisksofGMFoodsSumm\

aryDebate/index.cfm) , Jeffrey M. Smith

 

_Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered

Crops_

(http://www.uscusa.org/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/failure-to-lead.pdf\

) , Union of Concerned Scientists

 

_Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use: The First

Thirteen Years_

(http://www.organic-center.org/science.pest.php?action=view & report_id=159) ,

The Organic Center

1. Also see Doull J, Gaylor D, Greim HA, et al. “Report of an expert

panel on the reanalysis by Séralini et al. (2007) of a 90-day study

conducted by Monsanto in support of the safety of a genetically modified corn

variety (MON 863).†Food Chem Toxicol. 2007; 45:2073-2085. [_↩_

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2. See “How Subchronic and Chronic Health Effects can be Neglected

for GMOs, Pesticides or Chemicals.†IJBS; 2009; 5(5):438-443. [_↩_

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