Glyphosate : Monsanto has established a link with cancer

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Published the 12.10.2017 17: 45

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The revelations about Monsanto never end. While american justice has declassified the notes of the giant of the industry plant, two media in the netherlands have got their hands on a new document highly compromising to the firm.

In a PowerPoint presentation dated July 2008, Monsanto itself has established a link between its flagship product, the glyphosate that enters into the composition of the famous Round Up, and a risk of cancers. “The Roundup influence one of the crucial phases of the cell division which could in the long term lead to cancer,” writes the firm, which the documents are revealed by the magazine Knack and the periodic Dutch OneWorld.

Open Secret

The documents also remind us of the work of a French biologist, Robert Bellé, a Professor emeritus from the University Pierre and Marie Curie and specialist of the division cell. In 2002, the scientist showed in a study published in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology, that Roundup could cause damage to the DNA of the cells, in dosages well below those used by farmers and home gardeners.

Recently, the newspaper Le Monde is also immersed in the ” Monsanto Papers “. The reading of the documents helped to demonstrate the business of disinformation conducted by Monsanto in order to save time and to cast doubt on glyphosate. As early as 1999, the firm was concerned about the toxicity of the herbicide.

Glyphosate has been classified among the substances “probably carcinogenic” by the IARC (International agency for Research on Cancer) in march 2015, before this opinion is repudiated by the health agencies in europe. They have ruled in two recent reports that glyphosate did not constitute a danger to human health.

Decisions imminent

The press, however, has demonstrated that whole passages of the analysis of the european Agency for food safety (Efsa) had been copied-pasted from a report from Monsanto. This, necessarily, raises the doubt as to the scientific reliability of his conclusions.

The Member states, meeting within the European Commission must decide in the coming weeks on a possible re-authorisation of glyphosate for ten years. France is opposed to this proposal, but the debate between the ministry of Agriculture and the Transition to Ecological and Solidarity still does not seem settled.

At the beginning of October, parents filed a complaint in France against the manufacturer of pesticides. They consider that the glyphosate they used during pregnancy, is responsible for the malformations of their son. Theo, 10 years old, lives with a tracheotomy, and will soon undergo its 52nd operation.