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发帖数: 1203 | 1 France orders probe after rat study links GM corn, cancer
(AFP) – 1 day ago
PARIS — France's government on Wednesday asked a health watchdog to carry
out a probe, possibly leading to EU suspension of a genetically-modified
corn, after a study in rats linked the grain to cancer.
Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll, Ecology Minister Delphine Batho and
Health and Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine said they had asked the
National Agency for Health Safety (ANSES) to investigate the finding.
"Depending on ANSES' opinion, the government will urge the European
authorities to take all necessary measures to protect human and animal
health," they said in a joint statement.
"(The measures) could go as far as invoking emergency suspension of imports
of NK603 corn to Europe pending a re-examination of this product on the
basis of enhanced assessment methods."
Earlier, French scientists led by Gilles-Eric Seralini at the University of
Caen in Normandy unveiled a study that said rats fed with NK603 corn or
exposed to the weedkiller used with it developed tumours.
NK603 is a corn, also called maize, made by US agribusiness giant Monsanto.
It has been engineered to make it resistant to Monsanto's herbicide Roundup.
This enables farmers to douse fields with the weedkiller in a single go,
thus offering substantial savings.
Genetically modified (GM) crops are widely grown in North America, Brazil
and China but are a hot-button issue in Europe.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical
Toxicology, says it is the first to look at rats over their normal lifespan
of two years.
"For the first time ever, a GM organism and a herbicide have been evaluated
for their long-term impact on health, and more thoroughly than by
governments or the industry," Seralini told AFP. "The results are alarming."
Two hundred male and female rats were split into 10 groups of 10 animals.
One was a "control" group which was given ordinary rat food that contained
33 percent non-GM corn, and plain water.
Three groups were given ordinary rat food and water with increasing doses of
Roundup, reflecting various concentrations of the herbicide in the food
chain.
The other six were fed rat food of which 11, 22 or 33 percent comprised
NK603 corn, either treated or not with Roundup when the corn was grown.
The researchers found that NK603 and Roundup both caused similar damage to
the rats' health, whether they were consumed together or on their own.
Premature deaths and sickness were concentrated especially among females.
At the 14-month stage of experiment, no animals in the control groups showed
any signs of cancer, but among females in the "treated" groups, tumours
affected between 10 and 30 percent of the rodents.
"By the beginning of the 24th month, 50-80 percent of female animals had
developed tumours in all treated groups, with up to three tumours per animal
, whereas only 30 percent of controls were affected," it said
Males which fell sick suffered liver damage, developed kidney and skin
tumours and digestive problems.
Breaking with a long tradition in scientific journalism, the authors allowed
a selected group of reporters to have access to the paper, provided they
signed confidentiality agreements that prevented them from consulting other
experts about the research before publication.
Asked to respond, the French unit of Monsanto said "it is too soon to make a
serious comment because we have to evaluate the study. As soon as it is
available, our experts will look closely at it to give their scientific
assessment."
Green groups say GM crops could be dangerous to health and the environment,
although this claim has so far found no traction in large-scale studies.
The Monsanto spokesman said that "more than 300 peer-reviewed studies" had
found that GM food was safe.
In 2009, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) panel on GM organisms
determined that NK603 was "as safe as conventional maize".
"Maize NK603 and derived products are unlikely to have any adverse effect on
human and animal health in the context of the intended uses," it said,
delivering a judgement based in part on a 90-day feeding study on rats.
NK603 can be imported but cannot be grown in Europe.
Only Monsanto's MON810 transgenic corn and a gene-modified potato, Amflora,
made by BASF, have authorisation for being grown in Europe.
However, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg and Romania
have outlawed the growing of MON810 on their territory, citing the principle
of precaution. | k********8
发帖数: 7948 | 2 法国向来和美国搞不好
不过anyway还是小心为妙
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: France orders probe after rat study links GM corn, cancer
: (AFP) – 1 day ago
: PARIS — France's government on Wednesday asked a health watchdog to carry
: out a probe, possibly leading to EU suspension of a genetically-modified
: corn, after a study in rats linked the grain to cancer.
: Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll, Ecology Minister Delphine Batho and
: Health and Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine said they had asked the
: National Agency for Health Safety (ANSES) to investigate the finding.
: "Depending on ANSES' opinion, the government will urge the European
: authorities to take all necessary measures to protect human and animal
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发帖数: 1203 | 3 在欧洲至少意大利根本不碰转基因食物，其他几个国家也只允许starch而已。。。
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: 法国向来和美国搞不好
: 不过anyway还是小心为妙
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发帖数: 18290 | 4 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/monsanto-genetically-m
此研究受质疑。欧洲极左势力强大啊
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: France orders probe after rat study links GM corn, cancer
: (AFP) – 1 day ago
: PARIS — France's government on Wednesday asked a health watchdog to carry
: out a probe, possibly leading to EU suspension of a genetically-modified
: corn, after a study in rats linked the grain to cancer.
: Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll, Ecology Minister Delphine Batho and
: Health and Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine said they had asked the
: National Agency for Health Safety (ANSES) to investigate the finding.
: "Depending on ANSES' opinion, the government will urge the European
: authorities to take all necessary measures to protect human and animal
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