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Environmental exposure to glyphosate and reproductive health impacts in agricultural population of Argentina
Abstract: Argentina annually utilizes 240,000 tones of glyphosate in industrial agriculture and a change in the profile of morbidity is perceived for physicians of agricultural areas; now reproductive disorders seem to prevail. The objective of this study is to determine concurrence of glyphosate exposure and reproductive disorders in a typical argentine agricultural town (Monte Maíz). An …
Conflicts of interests, confidentiality and censorship in health risk assessment: The example of an herbicide and a GMO
Abstract: We have studied the long-term toxicity of a Roundup-tolerant GM maize (NK603) and a whole Roundup pesticide formulation at environmentally relevant levels from 0.1 ppb. Our study was first published in Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) on 19 September, 2012. The first wave of criticisms arrived within a week, mostly from plant biologists without experience in toxicology. We …
Genetically modified crop consumption at large scale: Possible negative health impacts due to holes in assessment. Overview of the safety studies of GMOs performed on mammals
Abstract: Recently, a debate on international regulation is ongoing on the capacity to predict and avoid adverse effects on health and environment of new products and novel food/feed (GMOs, chemicals, pesticides, nanoparticles …). The health risks assessment cannot avoid the study of blood analyses of mammals eating these products in subchronic or chronic tests. Mammalian …
How subchronic and chronic health effects can be neglected for GMOs, pesticides or chemicals
Abstract: Chronic health effects are increasing in the world such as cancers, hormonal, reproductive, nervous, or immune diseases, even in young people. During regulatory toxicological subchronic tests to prevent these on mammalian health, prior commercialization of chemicals, including pesticides and drugs, or GMOs, some statistically significant findings may be revealed. This discussion is about the …
Genetically modified foods and potential health risks
Keywords: Genetically Modified Foods, Allergies, Antibiotic Resistance, Toxicity, Cancer Citation: Şen, S., and Altınkaynak, S., 2014. Genetically modified foods and potential health risks. Journal of King Saud University – Science, 18(1), pp.31-38.
Should the Bt brinjal controversy concern healthcare professionals and bioethicists?
Abstract: The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee’s approval of Bt brinjal, the first genetically modified crop for human consumption in India, has sparked off protests across the country. This article questions the so-called benefits of GM crops and highlights some major concerns. These include: inadequately addressed health and environmental risks, inadequate safety guidelines, a lack of …
