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Monsanto’s Roundup Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples

TheWake UpCall 1 Roundup 6:15 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24549493" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">U.S. Geological Survey</a> has concluded that pesticides can be found in, well, just about anything.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/26/study-connects-monsantos-roundup-to-fatal-kidney-disease-epidemic/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Roundup herbicide</a>, Monsanto’s flagship weed killer, was present in 75 percent of air and rainfall test samples, according to the study, which focused on Mississippi’s highly fertile Delta agricultural region.</span></div>
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Monsanto’s Roundup Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples

A new U.S. Geological Survey has concluded that pesticides can be found in, well, just about anything. Roundup herbicide , Monsanto’s ...

Monsanto's Darkest Secret: Roundup's Effect On The Baby Fetus

TheWake UpCall 0 Baby Fetus, Monsanto's, Roundup 8:31 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At their first prenatal appointment, pregnant women are doled out a list of NO's including deli meats, fish, and unpasteurized cheese. There is a growing awareness of the fact that this list may be dangerously NON EXHAUSTIVE (and largely misguided, especially when it comes to unpasteurized dairy and eggs). <br><br>Even a recent, <a href="http://www.rcog.org.uk/womens-health/clinical-guidance/chemical-exposures-during-pregnancy-scientific-impact-paper-37">bold pronouncement by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology</a>, attempted to sound the alarm about chemical exposures with recommendations for "unproven" but potentially harmful exposures. They describe the importance of considering chemicals in personal care products, over the counter medications and supplements, metals and industrial pollutants in fish, and pesticides. However, they dilute their message by making statements such as "Realistically, pesticides are so rigorously regulated that human exposure via food residues is usually minimal, even in non–organic products." <br><br>Unfortunately, the concept of "dose makes the poison" is no longer operative in a world of multiple, synergistic chemical exposures, the toxicity of which <a href="http://kellybroganmd.com/snippet/toxic-breastmilk/">appears to be contingent</a> upon each individual's endocrine and immune system. <br><br><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6XSvat1cSzUTCZJAQK-ClrHRSV4WhOB73inyDObZMDGJcy_Zi5LImVgo3mMo-jKcT2E8d2DoTmNX71fkI7PxQ2xgANSc7QKFTwZUzPPztBXhZcvy1g4ZY9ytUJ-fQ8OhYljWDfNTS6Q/s1600/roundup_causes_birth_defects.jpg"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6XSvat1cSzUTCZJAQK-ClrHRSV4WhOB73inyDObZMDGJcy_Zi5LImVgo3mMo-jKcT2E8d2DoTmNX71fkI7PxQ2xgANSc7QKFTwZUzPPztBXhZcvy1g4ZY9ytUJ-fQ8OhYljWDfNTS6Q/s400/roundup_causes_birth_defects.jpg" width="400"></a></span></div>

Monsanto's Darkest Secret: Roundup's Effect On The Baby Fetus

At their first prenatal appointment, pregnant women are doled out a list of NO's including deli meats, fish, and unpasteurized cheese. ...

Extreme Levels of Roundup Detected in Food

TheWake UpCall 0 Roundup 3:59 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">In 2009, a French court found </span><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/21/France-Finds-Monsanto-Guilty-of-Lying.aspx" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; line-height: 25.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Monsanto guilty of lying</a><span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">; falsely advertising its </span><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/15/dr-don-huber-interview-part-2.aspx" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; line-height: 25.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Roundup</a><span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"> herbicide as "biodegradable," "environmentally friendly" and claiming it "left the soil clean." </span><br style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"><br style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">We're now starting to understand just how false such statements are. For example, last summer, a groundbreaking study revealed a previously unknown mechanism of harm from </span><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/14/glyphosate.aspx" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; line-height: 25.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">glyphosate</a><span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">, the active ingredient in Roundup. </span><br style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"><br style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">The research showed that glyphosate residues, found in most processed foods in the Western diet courtesy of GE sugar beets, corn, and soy, "enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt normal body functions and induce disease." </span><br style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"><br style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">More recently, a Norwegian study published in Food Technology </span><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814613019201" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; line-height: 25.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">[1]</a><span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"> found that genetically engineered (GE) soy contains high levels of glyphosate, along with a poorer nutritional profile, leading the researchers to question its quality and safety. </span><br style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"></span><br>
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Extreme Levels of Roundup Detected in Food

In 2009, a French court found Monsanto guilty of lying ; falsely advertising its Roundup herbicide as "biodegradable," "e...

Government study finds toxic Roundup herbicide in 75 percent of air, rain samples

TheWake UpCall 0 Roundup 12:49 PM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New research published in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry reveals that both air and rain are contaminated with Roundup and other toxic agricultural chemicals more than 75 percent of the time in some areas, exposing potentially hundreds of millions of people to small and perpetual doses of hidden chemical poisons.<br><br>For this research, a team of scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected air and rain samples weekly for 12 years during each growing season in the Mississippi Delta agricultural region, testing for glyphosate, the primary active ingredient in Roundup; atrazine; metolachlor; propanil, and a host of other pesticides and herbicides in common use between the years of 1995 and 2007 -- the first genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were introduced in the U.S. in 1995.</span><div>
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Government study finds toxic Roundup herbicide in 75 percent of air, rain samples

New research published in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry reveals that both air and rain are contaminated with Roundup an...

Roundup Linked to Global Boom in Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance

TheWake UpCall 0 Gluten, Monsa nto, Roundup 9:31 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Celiac disease, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome are on the rise worldwide, and that rise has taken place in parallel with the increased use of glyphosate (Roundup) herbicide, shows a new US peer-reviewed paper from Dr. Anthony Samsel and Dr. Stephanie Seneff. The review has been published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Toxicology.</span></div>
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Roundup Linked to Global Boom in Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance

Celiac disease, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome are on the rise worldwide, and that rise has taken place in parallel with t...

Roundup is more toxic than declared proves

TheWake UpCall 3 Poison, Roundup, Toxic 4:01 PM

<div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Alarming new research on the health hazards of Roundup weed killer is shining a harsh light on a regulatory process that was meant to protect us.</em><br />
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To protect our health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets maximum legal residue levels for every pesticide, for dozens of crops. But a new study in the respected journal <em>Toxicology</em> has shown that, at low levels that are currently legal on our food, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Roundup could cause DNA damage, endocrine disruption and cell death.</span>The study, conducted by French researchers, shows glyphosate-based herbicides are toxic to human reproductive cells.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">The potential real-life risks from this are infertility, low sperm count, and prostate or testicular cancer. </span>But, “Symptoms could be so subtle, they would be easy to overlook,” says Theo Colborn, president of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange. “Timing is of critical importance. If a pregnant woman were to be exposed early in gestation, it looks like these herbicides could have an effect during the sexual differentiation stage. They really lock in on testosterone.” The bottom line is more research is needed before we can fully understand the effects of glyphosate exposure.<br />
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The researchers’ most disturbing findings were not only the cytotoxic and hormonal responses to low-dose exposures, but the fact that the “active” ingredient - glyphosate - had much less of a toxic impact alone than the branded chemical mixtures sold to homeowners and farmers nationwide.<br />
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Solvents and surfactants, legally considered “inert ingredients,” are mixed with glyphosate in products such as Roundup weed killer to create chemical formulations that increase mobility and more direct access to the cells. <span style="font-weight: 700;">"Those same factors that aid penetration into a plant, also aid penetration into the skin,"</span> says Vincent Garry, professor emeritus of pathology at the University of Minnesota.<span class="BoldRed"> ”These chemicals are designed to kill cells.”</span><br />
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Despite being termed “inert,” these added (and usually secret) ingredients are anything but benign, as the manufacturers have claimed for decades. The new French research found the surfactants not only amplify the effects of glyphosate, but glyphosate also amplifies the effects of the surfactants. Basically, one plus one equals something larger than two.<br />
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Herbicide manufacturers are subject to fewer rules in the testing of inert ingredients than they are for active ingredients, explains Caroline Cox, research director at the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland, Calif. “The tests the EPA requires for inert ingredients cover only a small range of potential health problems,” Cox says. “Testing for birth defects, cancer and genetic damage are required only on the active ingredients. But we’re exposed to both.”<br />
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<span class="BoldGrey">The Rise of Roundup</span><br />
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Glyphosate, mostly in the form of Roundup products manufactured by the Monsanto Co., has been widely used in the United States since the 1970s. <span style="font-weight: 700;">Today, we spray more than 100 million pounds on our yards and farms every year, making it the most popular of the Monsanto chemicals</span>. Monsanto continues to assure us its product is safe. “It’s used to protect schools,” a Monsanto spokesperson told <em>Scientific American</em>. <span class="BoldRed">Protect schools?! From what, killer weeds?</span><br />
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Glyphosate use has skyrocketed in recent years because of the widespread adoption of genetically modified corn, soy and cotton varieties that Monsanto developed to be resistant to glyphosate, according to the Center for Food Safety. Although the companies promoted glyphosate-resistant crops as a way to reduce herbicide use, there’s actually been a sharp increase in use on corn, soybeans and cotton since 2002, thanks to the emergence of resistant weeds. Farmers are battling glyphosate-resistant weeds with more glyphosate and other herbicides.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Most of the food we eat that contains corn or soy was sprayed with glyphosate herbicide, and we’re being exposed to higher and higher levels of residue.</span> In response to petitions from Monsanto, the EPA has approved up to 20-fold increases in the legal residue limits for food crops.<br />
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"Our bodies are gigantic spider webs of chemical communications that work in the parts-per-trillion range," says Warren Porter, professor of zoology and environmental toxicology at the University of Wisconsin. "When you put so-called ‘insignificant’ amounts of toxic chemicals into the mix, you have a molecular bull in a china shop. <span style="font-weight: 700;">The possibilities for impact are endless.</span>" </span></div><script>
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<div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><a href="http://www.sott.net/article/209506-Roundup-Kills-More-Than-Weeds" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.sott.net/article/209506-Roundup-Kills-More-Than-Weeds</span></a></div><h1 class="entry-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 34px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Roundup is more toxic than declared proves new Seralini study</span></h1><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.infiniteunknown.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/monsanto-roundup.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 1px 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 1px 5px; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a <a href="http://gmoevidence.com/prof-gilles-eric-seralini-roundup-is-more-toxic-than-declared/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">new research paper published</a> in the high ranked scientific journal Toxicology, Robin Mesnage, Benoît Bernay and Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini, from the University of Caen, France, have proven (from a study of nine Roundup-like herbicides) that the most toxic compound is not glyphosate, which is the substance the most assessed by regulatory authorities, but a compound that is not always listed on the label, called POE-15. Modern methods were applied at the cellular level (on three human cell lines), and mass spectrometry (studies on the nature of molecules). This allowed the researchers to identify and analyse the effects of these compounds.</span></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px !important; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Context:</span></h3><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glyphosate is supposed to be the “active ingredient” of Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world, and it is present in a large group of Roundup-like herbicides. It has been safety tested on mammals for the purposes of regulatory risk assessment. But the commercial formulations of these pesticides as they are sold and used contain added ingredients (adjuvants). These are often classified confidential and described as “inerts”. However, they help to stabilize the chemical compound glyphosate and help it to penetrate plants, in the manner of corrosive detergents. The formulated herbicides (including Roundup) can affect all living cells, especially human cells. This danger is overlooked because glyphosate and Roundup are treated as the same by industry and regulators on long-term studies. The supposed non-toxicity of glyphosate serves as a basis for the commercial release of Roundup. The health and environmental agencies and pesticide companies assess the</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">long-term effects on mammals of glyphosate alone, and not the full formulation. The details of this regulatory assessment are jealously kept confidential by companies like Monsanto and health and environmental agencies.</span></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px !important; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Conclusion and consequences:</span></h3><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This study demonstrates that all the glyphosate-based herbicides tested are more toxic than glyphosate alone, and explains why. Thus their regulatory assessments and the maximum residue levels authorized in the environment, food, and feed, are erroneous. A drink (such as tap water contaminated by Roundup residues) or a food made with a Roundup tolerant GMO (like a transgenic soya or corn) were already demonstrated as toxic in the recent rat feeding study (2) from Prof. Séralini team. The researchers have also published responses to critics of the study (3). This new research explains and confirms the scientific results of the rat feeding study.</span></div><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br />
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<div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall, it is a great matter of concern for public health. First, all authorizations of Roundup-type herbicides have to be questioned urgently. Second, the regulatory assessment rules have to be fully revised. They should be analyzed in a transparent and contradictory manner by the scientific community. Agencies that give opinions to government authorities, in common with the pesticide companies generally conclude safety. The agencies’ opinions are wrong because they are made on the basis of lax assessments and much of the industry data is kept confidential, meaning that a full and transparent assessment cannot be carried out. These assessments are therefore neither neutral nor independent. They should as a first step make public on the Internet all the data that underpin the commercial release and positive opinions on the use of Roundup and similar products. The industry toxicological data must be legally made public.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adjuvants of the POE-15 family (polyethoxylated tallowamine) have now been revealed as actively toxic to human cells, and must be regulated as such. The complete formulations must be tested in long-term toxicity studies and the results taken into account in regulatory assessments. The regulatory authorisation process for pesticides released into the environment and sold in stores must urgently be revised. Moreover, since the toxic confidential adjuvants are in general use in pesticide formulations, we fear according to these discoveries that the toxicity of all pesticides has been very significantly underestimated.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This study was conducted in the University of Caen with the structural support of CRIIGEN in the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source:<br />
<span id="curate-us-tag"><a href="http://www.occupymonsanto360.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.occupymonsanto360.org</a> (<a href="http://s.tt/1A8OY" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://s.tt/1A8OY" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://s.tt/1A8OY</a>)</span></span></div><br />
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Roundup is more toxic than declared proves

Alarming new research on the health hazards of Roundup weed killer is shining a harsh light on a regulatory process that was meant to protec...

More Proof that RoundUp is Killing Us

TheWake UpCall 0 Poison, Roundup 4:43 PM

<span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The modern age of industrial agriculture and manufacturing has dumped heavy metals, carninogens, plastics, and pesticides into the environment at alarming rates. These toxins are showing up in most human tissue cells today. One distinct chemical may be trapping these toxins in human cells, limiting the human body's ability to detoxify its own cells. In a new peer reviewed study, this sinister chemical, glyphosate, has been proven to inhibit the human cell's ability to detoxify altogether. Glyphosate, found in Monsanto's Roundup, is being deemed by publishers of the new study "one of the most dangerous chemicals" being unleashed into the environment today.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Download the PDF of the study here:</span><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416" style="background-color: white; color: #6058b4; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416</a><br />
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<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px 0.5em; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: small;">How glyphosate destroys human cells</span></span></h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Glyphosate, most commonly found in conventional sugar, corn, soy and wheat products, throws off the cytochrome P450 gene pathway, inhibiting enzyme production in the body. CYP enzymes play a crucial role in detoxifying xenobiotics, which include drugs, carcinogens, and pesticides. By inhibiting this natural detoxification process, glyphosate systematically enhances the damaging effects of other environmental toxins that get in the body. This, in turn, disrupts homeostasis, increases inflammation, and leads to a slow deconstruction of the cellular system. Toxins build up in the gut over time and break down through the intestinal walls, infiltrating blood, and ultimately passing through the brain/blood barrier, damaging neurological function.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Important CYP enzymes that are affected include aromatase, the enzyme that converts androgen into estrogen, 21-Hydroxylase, which creates stress hormone cortisol, and aldosterone, which regulates blood pressure.</span><br />
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<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px 0.5em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;">Getting to the gut</span></h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Even as evidence mounts, Monsanto asserts that glyphosate is not harmful to humans, citing that its mechanism of action in plants (the disruption of the shikimate pathway), is not present in humans. This is not true.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The shikimate pathway, which is involved in the synthesis of the essential aromatic amino acids phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan, is present in </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/human.html" style="background-color: white; color: #6058b4; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">human</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> gut bacteria, which has a direct relationship with the human body, aiding in digestion, synthesizing vitamins, detoxifying carcinogens, and participating in immune system function.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">By inhibiting the body's gut flora from performing its essential function in the human body, </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/glyphosate.html" style="background-color: white; color: #6058b4; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">glyphosate</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> heightens many health issues facing the Western world today.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">These conditions include inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease, obesity, and even dementia and depression. Also, by restricting gut bacteria from absorbing nutrients, glyphosate voids the body of essential life-giving vitamins.</span><br />
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<h2 style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px 0.5em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;">Depletion of serum tryptophan and its link to obesity</span></h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Glysophate's damaging effects on gut bacteria lead to depleted sulfate supplies in the gut, resulting in inflammatory bowel disease. As more chemicals are absorbed from the environment, alterations in body chemistry actively promote weight gain by blocking nutrient absorption. By effecting CYP enzymes in the liver, obesity incidence is compounded, impairing the body's ability to detoxify synthetics chemicals. Since serotonin is derived from tryptophan and acts an appetite suppressant, the depletion of tryptophan encourages overeating in the brain, leading to obesity.</span><br />
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<script type='text/javascript' src='http://ads.qadserve.com/t?id=a2b34d3a-e07c-4678-a7a8-346319aafab6&size=728x90'></script><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Authors of the new review point out that "glyphosate is likely to be pervasive in our food supply and may be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment." </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Monsanto.html" style="background-color: white; color: #6058b4; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Monsanto</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> is already lashing back at these claims, calling this peer reviewed study, "bad science" and "another bogus study." What Monsanto fails to is mention that most of the studies on glyphosate's "safety" are conducted by Monsanto themselves, which is bias to the core.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The authors of this new </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/study.html" style="background-color: white; color: #6058b4; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">study</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> instead call out for more independent research to be done to validate their findings. They are concerned with glyphosate's inhibition of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes in the body, which are hindering the body's natural </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/detoxification.html" style="background-color: white; color: #6058b4; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">detoxification</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> ability.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">There is certainly a need for more empowering education on chemicals like glyphosate. There needs to be a kind of public mass awakening that correlates Monsanto's Roundup with skull and crossbones. If anything, Americans have the right to know how their food was produced, engineered, and poisoned, and everyone should pitch in and stop using toxic glyphosate-laced Roundup at all costs.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Sources for this article include:<br />
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More Proof that RoundUp is Killing Us

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Roundup and Birth Defects: Is the Public Being Kept in the Dark?

TheWake UpCall 0 Roundup 12:54 PM

<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">The pesticide industry and EU regulators knew as long ago as the 1980s-1990s that <strong><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/roundup-herbicide" style="color: #389a2e;">Roundup</a></strong>, the world's best selling herbicide, causes birth defects – but they failed to inform the public.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">This report, co-authored by international scientists and researchers, reveals that industry's own studies (including one commissioned by Monsanto) showed as long ago as the 1980s that Roundup's active ingredient glyphosate causes birth defects in laboratory animals.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><img alt="Roundup and Birth Defects: Is the Public Being Kept in the Dark?" height="400" src="http://cdn.greenmedinfo.com/sites/default/files/ckeditor/Sayer%20Ji/images/roundup_birth_defects.jpg" width="400" /></div><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Questions in the EU Parliament</span></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">The following EU parliamentary questions to the European Commission (EC) have been asked about Roundup, some of them about our report:</div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0px;"><li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Glyphosate: concern over the delayed glyphosate review</strong>, 3 Oct 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-009044+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Sir Graham Watson (ALDE), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-009044&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Cultivation of genetically-engineered seed and use of Roundup weed killer in EU Member States</strong>, 13 Sept 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-008116+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Nikolaos Chountis (GUE/NGL), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-008116&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Glyphosate: recent and worrying reports</strong>, 1 Aug 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-007708+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Linda McAvan (S&D),<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-007708&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Review of glyphosate</strong>, 20 July 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-007160+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from William (The Earl of) Dartmouth (EFD),<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-007160&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Glyphosate: using Monsanto's research on the substance to inform decisions on its safety for use</strong>, 20 July 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-007546+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Timothy Kirkhope (ECR), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-007546&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Review of glyphosate</strong>, 12 July 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-007160+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from William (The Earl of) Dartmouth (EFD),<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-007160&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Suppression of information about the side effects of glyphosate in the herbicide 'Roundup'</strong>, 30 June 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-006375+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Franz Obermayr (NI), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-006375&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>

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<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Public kept in the dark on Roundup link with birth defects</strong>, 27 June 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-006135+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Michail Tremopoulos (Verts/ALE), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-006135&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Roundup herbicide spray</strong>, 27 June 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-006141+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Andreas Mölzer (NI), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-006141&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Consequences for the EU of the discovery of a new pathogen in Monsanto's GMO products</strong>, 13 March 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2011-002381+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Kartika Tamara Liotard (GUE/NGL), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-002381&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Renewal of registration of glyphosate,</strong> 10 Feb 2011, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=WQ&reference=E-2011-000884&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Michail Tremopoulos (Verts/ALE), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2011-000884&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Error in the Commission's answer to my written question on glyphosate</strong>, 15 Dec 10,<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+P-2010-010522+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Michail Tremopoulos (Verts/ALE), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=P-2010-010522&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>Safety standards regarding widely used pesticide</strong>, 1 Oct 2010, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=WQ&reference=E-2010-7874&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Question</a> from Michail Tremopoulos (Verts/ALE), <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2010-7874&language=EN" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Answer</a> from the EC</li>
</ul><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The facts are these:</span></h1><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0px;"><li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Industry has known from its own studies since the 1980s that glyphosate causes malformations in experimental animals at high doses</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Industry has known since 1993 that these effects also occur at lower and mid doses</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The German government has known since at least 1998 that glyphosate causes malformations</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The EU Commission's expert scientific review panel knew in 1999 that glyphosate causes malformations</li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The EU Commission has known since 2002 that glyphosate causes malformations. This was the year it signed off on the current approval of glyphosate.</li>
</ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">But this information was not made public. On the contrary, the pesticide industry and Europe's regulators have jointly misled the public with claims that glyphosate is safe. As a result, Roundup is used by home gardeners and local authorities on roadsides, in school grounds, and in other public areas, as well as in farmers' fields.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">As recently as 2010, the German Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, BVL, told the Commission there was "no evidence of teratogenicity" (ability to cause birth defects) for glyphosate.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">BVL made this comment in its <a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/BVL2010-comments-Paganelli.pdf" style="color: #389a2e;">rebuttal</a> of an independent scientific study by Argentine scientists which showed that Roundup and glyphosate cause birth defects in experimental animals at concentrations much lower than those used in agricultural spraying. The study was prompted by reports of high rates of birth defects and cancers in areas of South America growing genetically modified (GM) Roundup Ready soy, which is engineered to tolerate being sprayed liberally with glyphosate herbicide.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">In its rebuttal of the Argentine study, BVL cited as proof of glyphosate's safety the industry studies submitted for the Commission's 2002 approval of glyphosate (the approval that is currently in force in Europe).</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">But the authors of the new report obtained the approval documents and found that contrary to BVL's claim, industry's own studies, conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, showed that glyphosate/Roundup causes birth defects in experimental animals.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/RoundupandBirthDefectsv5.pdf" style="color: #389a2e;">Download the report - Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">By Michael Antoniou, Mohamed Ezz El-Din Mostafa Habib, C. Vyvyan Howard, Richard C. Jennings, Carlo Leifert, Rubens Onofre Nodari, Claire Robinson, John Fagan. Published by Earth Open Source, June 2011</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><a href="http://bit.ly/luPi1M" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">Monsanto's Response to - Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?</a></div><br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><a href="http://on.fb.me/machCY" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">EOS Response to Monsanto - Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><a href="http://www.earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/BfR2011.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #389a2e;" target="_blank">New data on health aspects of Glyphosate? Response to Earth Open Source's report from the German ministry for risk assessment, BfR</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">In the interests of transparency and so that readers can check the accuracy of the statements in our report, we have made available those parts of Germany¹s 1998 draft assessment report (DAR) on<strong><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/glyphosate" style="color: #389a2e;">glyphosate</a></strong> that we cite.</div><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The files are as follows:</span></h1><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0px;"><li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/VOLUME1_GLYPHOSAT_02.PDF" style="color: #389a2e;">Volume 1_Glyphosat_02.pdf</a></li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/List-of-tests-and-studies-glyph-1998.pdf" style="color: #389a2e;">Volume 2, Part A, Annex A: List of Tests and Studies</a></li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/VOLUME3-1_GLYPHOSAT_05.PDF" style="color: #389a2e;">Volume 3-1_Glyphosat_05.pdf</a></li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/VOLUME3-1_GLYPHOSAT_04.PDF" style="color: #389a2e;">Volume 3-1_Glyphosate_04.pdf</a></li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/FULLREPORT_GLYPHOSAT_03.PDF" style="color: #389a2e;">FullReport_Glyphosat_03.pdf</a></li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/FULLREPORT_GLYPHOSAT_04.PDF" style="color: #389a2e;">FullReport_Glyphosat_04.pdf</a></li>
<li style="background-image: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin: 0.2em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/FULLREPORT_GLYPHOSAT_05.PDF" style="color: #389a2e;">FullReport_Glyphosat_05.pdf</a></li>
</ul><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><hr align="center" size="2" style="border-color: gray; border-style: solid; height: 1px;" width="100%" /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><strong>Download the peer-reviewed version of the report, published 2012 in the Journal of Environmental and Analytical Toxicology as "<a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/Antoniou-Teratogenic-Effects-of-Glyphosate-Based-Herbicides.pdf" style="color: #389a2e;">Teratogenic</a><a href="http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/Antoniou-Teratogenic-Effects-of-Glyphosate-Based-Herbicides.pdf" style="color: #389a2e;"> effects of glyphosate-based herbicides: Divergence of regulatory decisions from scientific evidence</a>".</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><strong>Source: </strong><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/roundup-and-birth-defects-public-being-kept-dark" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/roundup-and-birth-defects-public-being-kept-dark</a></div>
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Roundup and Birth Defects: Is the Public Being Kept in the Dark?

The pesticide industry and EU regulators knew as long ago as the 1980s-1990s that Roundup , the world's best selling herbicide, causes ...

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