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Hi John, I agree with your comments on the reproductive (birth defects) associated with spinosad. The problem could lead to significant birth defects or infertility in a large population, as well teratogens (birth defect causing chemicals are sometimes inactive or weakly active in rodent models but very potent in primates such as people. It would be a good idea to look at a population of children born to mothers exposed to spinoaad, and it is truly negligent to fail to require such studies. FDA seems to have a stringent policy of negligence and self serving excuses to protect its allegiance to large chemical companies. Nevertheless, it is worth pointing point out that spinosad is not synthetic (for the present) it is an organic by-product like most antibiotics. Along with that it has had more testing than the GM microbes and GM crops (including those producing biopharmaceuticals) released or field tested in North America. In spite of that, the organic market should demand clarification of the birth defect studies sponsored by Dow chemical (the spinosad producer). Prof.. Joe Cummins John D'hondt wrote: Hi all involved and interested in this. What struck me first reading the latest postings about spinosad was the eternal optimism of many. The German Professor who first synthesized DDT used to demonstrate the non toxicity of his brain child by eating a spoonful of it in public during a lecture. He spread it thick on bread with butter and ate it with relish in the full knowledge that it would not do him any harm and it probably didn't. And still we all now know that DDT is highly dangerous and capable of wiping out large populations of birds and damaging mammals. It is becoming clear that effect does not often stand in a simple mathematical relation ship to dosage. In many or perhaps most cases the effect/ dosage relationship is not a straight line but a highly complex one and worse effects are often seen at lower concentrations of the poison in question. The fact that factory data do not at all take this into account make me highly suspicious.   ***************************************************** To unsubscribe from SANET-MG: 1- Visit http://lists.sare.org/archives/sanet-mg.html
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