-Caveat Lector- forwarded.... Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -----Original Message----- From: jean hudon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 2:39 AM To: Mark Graffis Cc: Joanne Stephenson; Laura & Robin Ticciati (Mothers for Natural Law) Subject: FWD UN CODEX ruled unan: Milk Bovine Growth Hormone BAN UPHELD Hurray!! + Fishkill from mining in Cebu From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:54:04 EDT Subject: UN CODEX ruled unan: Milk Bovine Growth Hormone BAN UPHELD NEWS FLASH From NPICenter.com MONSANTO'S GENETICALLY MODIFIED MILK RULED UNSAFE BY THE UNITED NATIONS CHICAGO, Aug. 18, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The following was released today by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago: The Codex Alimentarius Commission, the U.N. Food Safety Agency representing 101 nations worldwide, has ruled unanimously in favor of the1993 European moratorium on Monsanto's genetically engineered hormonal milk(rBGH). This unexpected ruling, revealingly greeted by the U.S. press with deafening silence, is a powerful blow against U.S. global trade policies which are strongly influenced by powerful multi- national corporations, such as Monsanto. The Codex Commission ruling has also forced the U.S. to abandon its threats to challenge the European moratorium before the World Trade Organization later this year. As importantly, the ruling represents the first large scale defeat of genetically modified foods on unarguable scientific grounds, apart from ethical and ideological concerns. Since the Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of unlabeled rBGH milk in February 1994, the U.S. has exerted considerable pressure on Mexico and other trading partners to approve rBGH in efforts to increase pressure on Europe through the World Trade Organization. In this, they have been strongly supported by reports from the Food and Agriculture/World Health Organization's (FAO/WHO) Joint Expert Committees on Food Additives (JECFA), including its latest September 1998 report, which unequivocally absolved rBGH from any adverse veterinary and public health effects. However, these JECFA committees, besides others such as those claiming the safety of meat from cattle treated with sex hormones, operate under conditions of non-transparency and conflicts of interest, and are predominantly staffed by unelected and unaccountable U.S. and Canadian regulatory officials and industry consultants with no expertise in public health, preventive medicine and carcinogenesis. The 1998 JECFA report on rBGH was then submitted to the Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods, chaired by FDA's Director for Veterinary Medicine Dr. Stephen Sundloff who also played a prominent rolein the 1998 JECFA Committee. The Codex Committee promptly rubber stamped JECFA's seal of approval for rBGH with the confident expectation that this would be subsequently endorsed by the parent Codex Commission. However, the best laid plans of Monsanto and the FDA were aborted by an unexpected turn of events. Bowing to growing pressure in 1998 by Canadian advocacy groups, "dissident" government scientists and the Senate Agriculture Committee. Health Canada convened expert committees on veterinary and human safety under the auspices of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, respectively. Based on conclusions on the adverse veterinary effects of rBGH, particularly an increased incidence of mastitis, lameness and reproductive problems, Health Canada reluctantly broke ranks with the U.S. in January 1999, and issued a formal "notice of non- compliance", disapproving future sales of rBGH. Meanwhile, the European Commission had commissioned two independent committees of internationally recognized experts to undertake a comprehensive review of the scientific literature on both the veterinary and public health effects of rBGH. The veterinary committee fully confirmed and extended the Canadian warnings and conclusions. The public health committee confirmed earlier reports of excess levels of the naturally occurring Insulin-like-Growth Factor One (IGF-1), including its highly potent variants, in rBGH milk and concluded that these posed major risks of cancer, particularly of the breast and prostate, besides promoting the growth and invasiveness of cancer cells by inhibiting their programmed self-destruction (apoptosis). Faced with this latest well documented scientific evidence from both Canada and Europe, the U.S. bowed to the inevitable and failed to challenge the Codex ruling in support of the European moratorium. It is now 15 years since Monsanto embarked on a series of large scale veterinary trials on rBGH all over the U.S., and sold milk from these trials to an uninformed and unsuspecting public with the full approval of the FDA. Since then, Monsanto and the FDA, strongly supported by a network of indentured university academics, aggressive lobbying by the National Dairy Council and its well organized "hit squads" targeting rBGH opponents, andan overwhelmingly uncritical media, have ignored or trivialized substantial scientific evidence on the hazards of rBGH milk, including a series of publications over the last decade in the International Journal of Health Services, the most prestigious international public health publication. Also ignored by the media have been charges in 1981 by Congressman John Conyers (then Chairman of the House Committee on Government Operations), on the basis of a leaked confidential Monsanto study revealing serious pathology in cows injected with rBGH, that "Monsanto and the FDA have chosen to suppress and manipulate animal health test data in efforts to approve commercial use ofrBGH". These considerations reinforce growing concerns on the extreme unreliability of Monsanto and other biotech industry claims of the safety of genetically modified soy and other foods, especially in the absence of comprehensive testing by independent scientific experts, who should be funded by industry and not consumers. For more Industry News -http://www.npicenter.com/dailynewswire/index.asp --Nichole Hastings Director NPICenter.com Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 From: Ursula Schloer-Aznar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fish kill from mining in Cebu Can you help me to disseminate the news about the spilling of mining-tailings into the Tanyon Strait, the sea between Cebu and Negros? Many dolphins will be affected, the fishes are all dying, the sea became milky bluish white and everything around it is dead, as of yesterday it went already 5 miles into the sea. Nothing is done as of now, we need to publish this. It happened near the old Atlas Copper Mines in Toledo/Cebu, it seems that an old dam had broken and all the poison coming from Pyrite mining has spilled into a river and then in the sea. Atlas used open pit mining (copper, silver, pyrite and gold), they never restored the area, destroyed the farmland and many small rivers and springs. It was the second biggest copper mine in Asia, but closed down 4 years ago after big profits had been made. Only a deposit of 10 Million Pesos was made for eventual damages. Please forward or tell me which groups can be contacted, thank you so much Ursula DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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