Pesticides associated to genetically modified foods found in pregnant women and their fetuses

This study was published in Reproductive Toxicology 2011 May;31(4):528-33

 

Study title and authors:

Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.

Aris A, Leblanc S.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Sherbrooke Hospital Centre, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. aziz.aris@usherbrooke.ca

 

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338670

This study evaluated the blood levels of pesticides associated to genetically modified foods in pregnant and nonpregnant women. The blood of 30 pregnant women and 39 nonpregnant women from Quebec were studied.

The study found:
(a) The herbicides glyphosate and gluphosinate were detected in nonpregnant women and not detected in pregnant women.
(b) The herbicide 3-methylphosphinicopropionic acid and the insecticide Cry1Ab toxin were detected in pregnant women, their fetuses and nonpregnant women.

Glyphosate may cause cancer, liver and kidney damage. Gluphosinate has been linked with heart failure, neurotoxicity, cancer, DNA damage, and reproductive toxicity. 3-methylphosphinicopropionic acid is derived from gluphosinate. Cry1Ab toxin is capable of causing cell death.

The implications for human health with genetically modified maize

Published in Ecological Entomology Volume 27 Issue 4, Pages 441 - 447

Uptake of Bt-toxin by herbivores feeding on transgenic maize and consequences for the predator Chrysoperla carnea
A. Dutton , H. Klein , J. Romeis and F. Bigler
Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture, Zürich, Switzerland

This study can be accessed at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118917401/abstract
 
The Green Lacewing (Chrysoperla carnea) (an important predatory insect) was fed insects which had been feeding on genetically modified maize and conventional maize. 
 
There was a significant increase in mortality and a delay in development was observed when the Green Lacewing was fed insect larvae reared on genetically modified maize.
 
This findings of the study implicate the hazardous ecological risks of genetically modified maize, and if it can cause death in insects-what impact could it have on human health.

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Genetically modified pesticide residue found in intestines

Published in the J. Anim. Sci. 2003. 81:2546-2551

Detection of corn intrinsic and recombinant DNA fragments and Cry1Ab protein in the gastrointestinal contents of pigs fed genetically modified corn Bt11
E. H. Chowdhury*, H. Kuribara, A. Hino, P. Sultana*, O. Mikami*, N. Shimada*, K. S. Guruge*, M. Saito and Y. Nakajima*,2
* National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0856, Japan; and National Food Research Institute, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8642, Japan; and and National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0901, Japan
2 Correspondence: Toxicopathology (phone: +81-29-838-7818; fax: +81-29-838-7825, E-mail: yasunk@affrc.go.jp).

This study can be accessed at: http://jas.fass.org/cgi/content/abstract/81/10/2546
 
The results of the study suggest that the genetically inserted Bacillus thuringiensis pesticide in the GM corn feed is still intact in the gastrointestinal tract.
 
This raises the question: Is it healthy to have a pesticide in your intestines?

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Genetically modified potatoes show detrimental effects on the gastrointestinal tract

The Lancet, Volume 354, Issue 9187, Pages 1353 - 1354, 16 October 1999

Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intestine
Dr Stanley WB Ewen FRCPath a , Arpad Pusztai PhD a
a Department of Pathology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
 
This study can be accessed at: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673698058607/abstract
 
Diets containing genetically modified (GM) potatoes showed some detrimental effects on different parts of the rat gastrointestinal tract.

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The American Academy of Environmental Medicine recommends the public to avoid genetically modified foods

American Academy of Environmental Medicine on May 8, 2009.)

Genetically Modified Foods
Amy Dean, D.O. and Jennifer Armstrong, M.D.
6505 E Central Avenue #296 Wichita KS 67206

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine recommend:

Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.

Physicians to consider the possible role of GM foods in the disease processes of the patients they treat and to document any changes in patient health when changing from GM food to non-GM food.

Our members, the medical community, and the independent scientific community to gather case studies potentially related to GM food consumption and health effects, begin epidemiological research to investigate the role of GM foods on human health, and conduct safe methods of determining the effect of GM foods on human health.

For a moratorium on GM food, implementation of immediate long term independent safety testing, and labeling of GM foods, which is necessary for the health and safety of consumers.

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