When are we going to say enough is enough - the air we breathe, the food we eat - contaminated
GM firms claimed toxins were destroyed in the gut Yeah and I saw a pig fly this morning
Study: Mothers to be were tested
Toxins implanted into GM food crops to kill pests are reaching the bloodstreams of women and unborn babies, alarming research has revealed.
A landmark study found 93 per cent of blood samples taken from pregnant women and 80 per cent from umbilical cords tested positive for traces of the chemicals.
Millions of acres in North and South America are planted with GM corn containing the toxins, which is fed in vast quantities to farm livestock around the world – including Britain.
However, it is now clear the toxins designed to kill crop pests are reaching humans and babies in the womb – apparently through food.
It is not known what, if any, harm this causes but there is speculation it could lead to allergies, miscarriage, abnormalities or even cancer.
To date the industry has always argued that if these toxins were eaten by animals or humans they would be destroyed in the gut and pass out of the body, thus causing no harm.
Food safety authorities in Britain and Europe have accepted these assurances on the basis that GM crops are effectively no different to those produced using conventional methods.
But the latest study appears to blow a hole in these claims and has triggered calls for a ban on imports and a total overhaul of the safety regime for GM crops and food.
Most of the global research which has been used to demonstrate the safety of GM crops has been funded by the industry itself.
GM: Ninety-three per cent of samples from pregnant women and 80 per cent from umbilical cords tested positive for traces of toxins. Picture posed by model
GM: Ninety-three per cent of samples from pregnant women and 80 per cent from umbilical cords tested positive for traces of toxins. Picture posed by model
The new study was carried out by independent doctors at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, at the University of Sherbrooke Hospital Centre in Quebec, Canada.
They took blood samples from 30 pregnant women and 39 other women who were not having a baby.
They were looking for residues of the pesticides associated with the cultivation of GM food.
These include so-called Bt toxins, which are implanted using GM techniques into corn and some other crops.
Fragile: It is not known what effect the toxins have on the unborn foetus
Fragile: It is not known what effect the toxins have on the unborn foetus
Traces of Bt toxin were found in the blood of 93 per cent of the pregnant mothers – 28 out of 30. It was also found in 80 per cent of the umbilical cords – 24 out of 30.
In the non-pregnant group, traces were found in the blood of 69 per cent – 27 out of 39. It is thought the toxin is getting into the human body as a result of eating meat, milk and eggs from farm livestock fed GM corn.
The Canadian team told the scientific journal Reproductive Toxicology: ‘This is the first study to highlight the presence of pesticides associated with genetically modified foods in maternal, foetal and non-pregnant women’s blood.’
They said the Bt toxin was ‘clearly detectable and appears to cross the placenta to the foetus’.
Calling for action, the team said: ‘Given the potential toxicity of these environmental pollutants and the fragility of the foetus, more studies are needed.’
The director of GM Freeze, an umbrella group for community, consumer and environmental organisations opposed to GM farming, described the research as ‘very significant’.
Pete Riley said: ‘This research is a major surprise as it shows that the Bt proteins have survived the human digestive system and passed into the blood supply – something that regulators said could not happen.
‘Regulators need to urgently reassess their opinions, and the EU should use the safeguard clauses in the regulations to prevent any further GM Bt crops being cultivated or imported for animal feed or food until the potential health implications have been fully evaluated.’
Biohazard: Millions of acres in North and South America are planted with GM corn containing the toxins, which is fed in vast quantities to farm livestock worldwide
Biohazard: Millions of acres in North and South America are planted with GM corn containing the toxins, which is fed in vast quantities to farm livestock worldwide
The Agriculture Biotechnology Council, which speaks for the GM industry, questioned the reliability and value of the research.
Its chairman, Dr Julian Little, said: ‘The study is based on analysis that has been used in previous feeding studies and has been found to be unreliable.’
He said the toxins found are also used in other farming systems and gardening ‘with no harm to human health’.
Dr Little said: ‘Biotech crops are rigorously tested for safety prior to their use and over two trillion meals made with GM ingredients have been safely consumed around the world over the past 15 years without a single substantiated health issue.’
Places:
Canada,
Europe
Comments (26)
II The stem cells once extracted and hands in private labs or cord blood banks may sell them for more than gold, at about $30,000.00 a collected unit. A collected unit may be less then one ounce. The baby is missing not just his or her own stem cells but mature red cells, white cells, platelets, and plasma, and the hormones for the sex of the child, and enzymes. The child is weaker and has been exploited for the sake of science. This is unnecessary as adults can donate their whole blood to confirm the elements of pollution are now in their blood stream, not just any creature living on Planet Earth, now polluted: land, air, water. You can only stop the hospitals from allowing doctors to be used as tools to do early and instant umbilical cord clamping by having a signed birth contract that all revival of all infants, however they are born, be revived on the unclamped and untied umbilical cord. The policies dictate instant or early cord clamping - an elements of surprise.
- Concerned2, Dawson Creek, BC Canada, 22/5/2011 08:24
The science studies are being used to seek DNA from the newborn babies, and their deprived placenta blood and that which is the umbilical cord. If the baby receives all their proper placenta and cord blood infusion into their expanding lungs, the cord is white, silver, flat with no blood in it, and it has ceased pulsating. The palcenta is then a flat cake, the name for placenta. The blood from the placenta has gone through the cord into the baby's expanding lungs. They can find the same results of toxins in chickens from their development in the egg; they can find the same results in adults who can donate their blood with consent; they can find the same results from other placenta birthing creatures. They are using science and research to justify seeking the baby's palcenta and cord blood, which is sold and separated into these elements: stem cells, they are adult stem cells coming from a full term baby but these are called cord blood stem cells, making them appear different.
- Concerned2, Dawson Creek, BC Canada, 22/5/2011 08:05
Look the GMO companies are culpable, but so are you the media and the Government for pushing this stuff on us. Anyone who dared to object was vilified and labelled a conspiracy theorist. So whatis this new rationale, just openly let folks know that they are being deiberately poisoned and made infertile and more prone to cancers as they are so stupid ( probably because of what has been put in to their bodies), testing public reaction?
- tom bowden, perth australia, 21/5/2011 12:36
They want to genetically modify humans
- Justine, uk, 21/5/2011 10:55
Whilst there is little in the way of evidence to show the long term effects of GM foods (as there has not been time to conduct such studies). That does not detract from the point that chemicals with unknown effects are entering our children at ages when even small amounts of a substance can cause serious problems. As a result there NEEDS to be far more caution exercised when dealing with GM foods to ensure that these foods are 100% safe. Would you give you child BPA contaminated bottles? No, because after years of use we find that it is harming our children. Should we allow thousands of children to possibly get sick, have GM crops contaminate non-GM crops and be forever left with a legacy of toxic foods? I would have to say no to that, but thats just my opinion of course.....
- Liam, Albury, Australia, 21/5/2011 02:32
Thanks for this report but why no mention of the company Monsanto, the world's largest producer of GM seeds. They have been trying for years to get their poisonerous seeds into our foods. in the US former members of Monsanto are now members of Obama's govenrment and when they leave they return to Monsanto. Its called the revolving door. I should also mention that Monsanto is not alone, Dow Chemical and DuPont are also into GM, as they were in making the chemical Agent Orange used with horrific results during the war on Vietnam. Today inj Vietnam there are over four million suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. My advice: Don't buy it, don't plant it and don't eat it.
- Len Aldis, London, 20/5/2011 19:40
The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
Find this story at www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1388888/GM-food-toxins-blood-93-unborn-babies.html
No comments:
Post a Comment