Data will set you free: Data extracted from Monsanto by courts, etc. re-analyzed to find organ damage in rats caused by specific GMO corn

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Data will set you free: Data extracted from Monsanto by courts, etc. re-analyzed to find organ damage in rats caused by specific GMO corn

Glen Newton
The below analysis and re-evaluation - using original Monsanto data -
would never have made the light of day if the data had not been made
available through the courts and forward-looking governments. Another
reason for open data for food and drug trials. But in this case there
was an EU directive under which this data was supposed to have been
openly available, but was not. Laws and regulation need to be
supported by enforcement.

Note that this should not be seen as an indictment of all GMOs, but of
these particular GMOs and the regulatory regime (or lack thereof)
around them.

Originally from slashdot: "Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO
Corn" http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/13/0328221/Organ-Damage-In-Rats-From-Monsanto-GMO-Corn

de Vendômois JS, Roullier F, Cellier D, Séralini GE. A Comparison of
the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health. Int J Biol
Sci 2009; 5:706-726. http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm
"The raw biochemical data, necessary to allow a statistical
re-evaluation, should be made publically available according to
European Union Directive CE/2001/18 but unfortunately this is not
always the case in practice. On this occasion, the data we required
for this analysis were obtained either through court actions (lost by
Monsanto) to obtain the MON 863 feeding study material (June 2005), or
by courtesy of governments or Greenpeace lawyers. We thank the Swedish
Board of Agriculture, May 30, 2006 for making public the NK 603 data
upon request from Greenpeace Denmark and lawyers from Greenpeace
Germany, November 8, 2006 for MON 810 material. This allowed us to
conduct for the first time a precise and direct side-by-side
comparison of these data from the three feeding trials with these
GMOs."

"Our analysis clearly reveals for the 3 GMOs new side effects linked
with GM maize consumption, which were sex- and often dose-dependent.
Effects were mostly associated with the kidney and liver, the dietary
detoxifying organs, although different between the 3 GMOs. Other
effects were also noticed in the heart, adrenal glands, spleen and
haematopoietic system. We conclude that these data highlight signs of
hepatorenal toxicity, possibly due to the new pesticides specific to
each GM corn. In addition, unintended direct or indirect metabolic
consequences of the genetic modification cannot be excluded."

-glen
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/




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