How monsanto 'listens' to other opinions

Ecologist

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 299-300

  Montague, Peter ^a  

^a Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly   (United States)

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ECOLOGY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; FOOD INDUSTRY;

EID: 0345471835     PISSN: 02613131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (3)

1. Taken from an article by Nick Cohen, "Digger still plays dirty". The Observer, July 5, 1998.
2. Chan, J. M. et al., "Plasma Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 [IGF-1] and Prostate Cancer Risk: A Prospective Study", Science Vol. 279 (January 23, 1998), pp. 563566.
3. In his book Milk, the Deadly Poison [ISBN 0-9659196-0-9, Englewood Cliffs. NJ: Argus Press, Tel. +1 201 871-5871, 1997J, pp. 67-96, Robert Cohen describes his extensive efforts to obtain a copy of this unpublished study from the PDA. Cohen filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the study and was refused; he appealed within the PDA and lost. He then filed a lawsuit in the federal court and, again, lost. The PDA and the courts agree that the public should never learn what happened to those rats fed rBGH because it would "irreparably harm" Monsanto. Based on the scant information that has been published about the weight gains of the rats during the 90-day study, Cohen believes that many or perhaps all of the rats got cancer. Weight-gain in the rats is described cryptically in Tables 1 and 2 in Juskevich, J. C. and Greg Guyer, C. G. "Bovine Growth Hormone: Human Food Safety Evaluation", Science Vol. 249 (1990), pp. 875-884.