Hi Dale,Thank you for the comments.The full report should provide the raw data and I urge you to discuss it both statisticians and toxicologists.The most disturbing aspect of the study was that the numerous statistically significant differences between Bt maize fed animals and controls. Those differences were dismissed on the basis of the fact that historical data from unrelated experiments showed some control values that comparable to the Bt treated animals in the test experiment. I have experienced similar fall back positions by corporate toxicologists in the reports on toxic pesticides and I regard such fall back to be sleazy and neglectful of the public interest, I am sorry that government regulators bought into such sleaze. The use of CBI designation is allowed for data that effects the marketing of BT maize. Certainly, injury to test animals will effect corporate sale of Bt corn ergo become CBI. Regulators allowing CBI designations for injurious practices should share the liability for the injury that they create. I hope that the lesson of the German Court will somehow be passed on to courts in USA and Canada, At Nuremberg after the second world war the German judges were found guilty of subverting fundamental justice. The courts in US and Canada should consider that consequence of their current judgments.
Sincerely,joe Dale Wilson wrote:
Joe,Judges have ordered the publication of a secret study which has raised fears that eating GM food may harm human health, after it was revealed in The Independent on Sunday last month.Monsanto - which dismisses the differences between the rats as pure chance - supplied the study to safety authorities on condition it waskept confidential. It has consistently refused to make the study public, saying it "contains confidential business information...I completely agree that such information should be made public, and that the courts (and regulatory agencies) should exercise control over these big corporations. If there really is legitimate CBI that should remain private, surely the judges can selectively delete it before release. I'd love to get ahold of the raw data to do my own analysis. Dale __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com******************************************************** To unsubscribe from SANET-MG: 1- Visit http://lists.sare.org/archives/sanet-mg.html to unsubscribe or; 2- Send a message to <listserv@sare.org> from the address subscribed to the list. Type "unsubscribe sanet-mg" in the body of the message. Visit the SANET-MG archives at: http://lists.sare.org/archives/sanet-mg.html For more information on grants and other resources available through the SARE program, please visit http://www.sare.org.
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