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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

UNACCEPTABLE TO EC REGULATORS. "The use of six natural and artificial growth hormones in beef production pose a potential risk to human health. These six hormones include three that are naturally occurring ... and three that are synthetic." http://lnkd.in/dcJYWsG 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

THE EUROPEAN SCVPH REPORT on hormones in beef. http://lnkd.in/ddfcMfv 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

US MEAT HORMONES RULED DANGEROUS. "The EU panel further stated that ALL of the banned hormones are thought to cause a variety of health problems or diseases, including cancer, developmental problems, immunological breakdown, brain disease, and others." (My emphasis). 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

US MEAT HORMONES RULED DANGEROUS. "In 1999, an official EU scientific panel released a comprehensive report which confirmed that at least one of the six growth hormones contained in U.S. beef products, which are now banned by the EU, conclusively causes cancer. " http://lnkd.in/dv-EN2y 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

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