Pesticides and herbicides increase the risk of parkinson's disease

American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on March 6, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwp006

Parkinson's Disease and Residential Exposure to Maneb and Paraquat From Agricultural Applications in the Central Valley of California

Sadie Costello, Myles Cockburn, Jeff Bronstein, Xinbo Zhang and Beate Ritz
Correspondence to Dr. Sadie Costello, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 50 University Hall, #7360, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 (e-mail: sadie@berkeley.edu).

This paper can be accessed at: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/kwp006v1

This study provides evidence that exposure to a combination of the pesticides and herbicides maneb and paraquat increases Parkinson's Disease risk

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Exposure to insecticides leads to male infertility

Published in Epidemiology. 2006 Jan;17(1):61-8.

Exposure to nonpersistent insecticides and male reproductive hormones.
Meeker JD, Ryan L, Barr DB, Hauser R.
Department of Environmental Health, Occupational Health Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Building 1, Room 1405, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16357596
 
TCPY and 1N are substances used as insecticides. The study shows that exposure to these substances is associated with reduced testosterone levels, with the possible mass infertility implications because of the widespread public exposure of these insecticides.

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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 crops may cause skin allergies

Published in Environ Health Perspect. 1999 July; 107(7): 575–582. PMCID: PMC1566654

Immune responses in farm workers after exposure to Bacillus thuringiensis pesticides.
I L Bernstein, J A Bernstein, M Miller, S Tierzieva, D I Bernstein, Z Lummus, M K Selgrade, D L Doerfler, and V L Seligy
Division of Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1566654/

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a bacteria that has been developed into a pesticide. When the gene for the bacterial protein of Bt is transferred to plants, the now genetically modified plants themselves produce the Bt toxin, which protects them against chewing pests.

This study demonstrated that exposure to Bacillus thuringiensis sprays may lead to allergies of the skin.

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Genetically modified foods could cause cell damage and even death

Chem. Res. Toxicol., 2009, 22 (1), pp 97–105

Glyphosate Formulations Induce Apoptosis and Necrosis in Human Umbilical, Embryonic, and Placental Cells
Nora Benachour and Gilles-Eric Sralini*
University of Caen, Laboratory Estrogens and Reproduction, UPRES EA 2608, Institute of Biology, Caen 14032, France

This study can be accessed at: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx800218n
 
Roundup is the brand name of a herbicide produced by the Monsanto, and contains the active ingredient glyphosate. It is used on conventionally grown and genetically modified crops.
 
The author identifies that Roundup is toxic and concludes: "The proprietary mixtures available on the market could cause cell damage and even death around residual levels to be expected, especially in food and feed derived from Roundup formulation-treated crops".

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