En réponse à :
Le Tourniquet : qui contrôle qui ?
La Food & Drug Administration Monsanto ou Monsanto la Food & Drug Administration ?
MICHAEL R. TAYLOR :
-Vice President for Public Policy at MONSANTO Company
-Administrator of the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
-Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration.
MARGARET MILLER :
MONSANTO’s top rBGH hormone dairy scientist. She left Monsanto to join the FDA and review her own studies for approval.
SUZANNE SECHEN :
-Primary reviewer for rBGH in the Office of New Animal Drugs between 1988 and 1990. Her professor was one of MONSANTO’s university consultants and a known rBGH promoter.
-Researcher for several MONSANTO-funded rBGH studies.
-Now employed by the Food & Drug Administration.
Margaret Miller, Michael Taylor, and Suzanne Sechen were the subjects of a U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation in 1994 for their role in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Posilac-rBGH, Monsanto Corporation’s formulation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbST or rBGH). The GAO Office found "no conflicting financial interests with respect to the drug’s approval" (! !!!!!!!!!!!) and only "one minor deviation from now superseded FDA regulations". (Quotations are from the 1994 GAO report).
WILLIAM D.RUCKELSHAUS :
-former chief administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, now (and for the last 12 years) a member of the board of directors of MONSANTO.
MARCIA HALE :
-former assistant to the President of the United States and director for intergovernmental affairs, now Director of International Government Affairs for MONSANTO.
LINDA J. FISHER :
-Former Assistant Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, now Vice President of Government and Public Affairs for MONSANTO.
She also served on a U.S. Agriculture Department advisory committee on biotech foods. One of the major issues currently before the EPA is a request from Aventis SA to approve a genetically- modified corn known as StarLink for human consumption. StarLink, a variety altered to repel pests, was barred from human food in 1998 due to concerns that it might trigger allergic reactions in some people.
MICHAEL A. FRIEDMAN,M.D :
-Former acting commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Department of Health and Human Services . . .now senior vice-president for clinical affairs at G. D. Searle & Co., a pharmaceutical division of MONSANTO.
The prestigious British medical journal, THE LANCET, issued a warning that GM foods should never have been allowed into the food chain. Britain’s Medical Association (the equivalent of the AMA) with 100,000 physicians and Germany’s with 325,000 issued similar statements. In a gathering of political representatives from over 130 nations, approximately 95% insisted on new precautionary approaches.
The National Academy of Science released a report that GM products introduce new allergens, toxins, disruptive chemicals, soil-polluting ingredients, mutated species and unknown protein combinations into our bodies and into the whole environment.
This may also raise existing allergens to new heights as well as reduce nutritional content. Even within the FDA, prominent scientists have repeatedly expressed profound fears and reservations. Their voices were muted not for cogent scientific reasons but due to political pressures from the administration to buttress the nascent biotech industry.
RESULTAT : Monsanto a obtenu que la FDA (… et maintenant Bruxelles ?) partage sa position, à savoir :
“The recommended actions should be the same for cultivars developed by new and traditional methods, because it’s the product and not the process that is regulated”
Autrement dit, il n’existe aucune différence entre un OGM et un hybride naturel, entre le peuplier-scorpion obtenu par génie génétique et le Cabernet-Sauvignon, don des dieux.
La Droite a encore raté une belle occasion de ne pas laisser le monopole de la lutte anti-OGM de plein champ à l’irreductible Jose Bove.
Voir The Monsanto Machine http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/090300-03.htm
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