Month: September 2022

ANIMAL DOPING. "In the livestock industry hormonal growth promoters ("anabolics") are used to increase the production of muscle meat. This leads to international disputes about the safety of meat originating from animals treated with such anabolics. As a consequence ... the total ban in the EU of all hormonal active growth promoters ("hormones") in livestock production." http://lnkd.in/dgeMcK6 View in LinkedIn

CHALK AND CHEESE. "In the EU the treatment of slaughter animals is the regulatory offence that has to be controlled in inspection programs. In the USA testing for compliance of a regulatory maximum residue level in the edible product (muscle, fat, liver or kidney) is the purpose of the inspection program (if any)." http://lnkd.in/dgeMcK6 View in LinkedIn

HORMONES FOR MILK PRODUCTION. "One of the most common and controversial ways to force greater milk production is with injection of rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone), a genetically engineered artificial growth hormone. According to critics, rBGH has never been properly tested. The FDA relied solely on one study performed by Monsanto in which rBGH was tested for 90 days on 30 rats." http://lnkd.in/dcJYWsG View in LinkedIn

MONSANTO RAT HORMONE STUDY. "The study was never published, and the FDA stated that the results showed no significant problems. A review of rBGH by Health Canada found the 90-day study showed a significant number of issues that should have triggered a full review by the FDA." http://lnkd.in/dcJYWsG View in LinkedIn

EU BACK MEAT GROWTH ENHANCER MARKET. "In the EU dozens of illegal hormones are used and the number of active compounds is still expanding ... An estimate is also given of the probability of consumption in the EU of "highly" contaminated meat from the application sites in cattle." http://lnkd.in/dgeMcK6 View in LinkedIn

THE US DELANEY CLAUSE. "Chemical overload, whether in the form of hormone residues in meat or carcinogenic chemicals ubiquitous in our environment, has been a cause of concern for many decades. Congressman Delaney attempted to respond to consumer demand for a safer food supply. What began as a tiny piece of legislation has sparked a controversial debate that still continues after forty years." http://lnkd.in/dv-EN2y View in LinkedIn

ZERO TOLERANCE GOAL. "The Delaney clause was a provision in the amendment which said that if a substance were found to cause cancer in man or animal, then it could not be used as a food additive ... applied to pesticides in processed foods, but only when the concentration of a residue of a cancer-causing pesticide increased during processing." http://lnkd.in/deVUxZb View in LinkedIn

THE DELANEY CLAUSE. "The FDA was the first agency to have to confront this problem, with respect to the use of diethylstilbestrol to promote the growth of livestock ... It addressed the issue by using quantitative risk assessment, declaring that if a carcinogenic food additive was present at a concentration of less than 1 part in 1,000,000, the risk was negligible." http://lnkd.in/deVUxZb View in LinkedIn

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. "38 years after the law was passed, the EPA has announced plans to begin banning the use of about 70 pesticides that are known carcinogens and are used on food crops ... the most sweeping since the Delaney clause was enacted and was prompted by lawsuits from environmental groups demanding that the clause be strictly enforced." http://lnkd.in/dJ6jZ2k View in LinkedIn

ZERO TOLERANCE THRESHOLD. "The lack of technologically feasible scientific methods made it impossible to determine a safe level of any carcinogen in the food supply ... the overwhelming consensus was that all carcinogens should be banned from the food supply. The result was a policy which established a zero-tolerance threshold for carcinogenic food additives and pesticides." http://lnkd.in/dv-EN2y View in LinkedIn