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Home / Society / Issues / Science and Technology / Biotechnology / Genetics / Genetically Modified Food / Bovine Growth Hormones
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- "Monsanto`s Hormonal Milk Poses Serious Risks of Breast Cancer" - Allegations by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. (Hormonal milk is unlabelled, so you may be drinking it.)
www.home.intekom.com/tm_info/rw80626.htm#Monsanto´s
- Consumers Union: U.S. and Europe Agree to Disagree on Safety of Dairy Hormone - Report on a decision by the U.N.'s main food safety body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, not to endorse recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH), due to lack of consensus in the scientific community on its safety.
www.consumersunion.org/food/bghny899.htm
- HungerStrike Central - Statements by Richard Cohen, who went on a 205 day hunger strike to protest the introduction of milk from bGH-treated cows into the American food chain. Sharply critical of Monsanto and the FDA's actions.
www.hungerstrike.com
- Milk and the Cancer Connection - Comprehensive review of the link between cancer and milk from cows treated with bovine growth hormone at Victoria's 'Net-Active' Community.
vvv.com/healthnews/milk.html
- Milk Safety - RACHEL's Environment and Health Weekly #454 - on safety of milk from cows given bovine growth hormones (BGH).
www.enviroweb.org/publications/rachel/rehw454.htm
- Report on Grievance Hearings - The scientists described in detail how they were pressured by senior Health Canada management to approve BGH and other products of questionable safety. They said said that when they hesitated to approve drugs they considered unsafe, they were threatened by their superiors with personal law suits by drug companies, charged with insubordination, harassed, and isolated in their research.
www.canadianliberty.bc.ca/relatedinfo/grievance_hearings.html
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Press Release on the Approval of Sometribove - Formal report on the approval of milk from bST-treated cows for human consumption in the US, including the conclusion that milk from treated cows is indistinguishable from milk from non-treated cows, the added risk of mastitis, and the manufacturer's agreement to conduct follow-up studies on drug residues in milk.
www.nalusda.gov/bic/BST/Misc/bst.release.html
- US FDA article on Bovine Growth Hormone - U.S. Food & Drug Administration article on bovine growth hormone and safety for humans.
www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/CONSUMER/CON00068.HTML
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