Study Clearly Shows 3 commercial GM Corns harmful to mammals

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This public French study should let farmers and consumers see the light

that these Monsanto GM corn varieties (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON

863) are DAMAGING to mice in a 90 day study.

According to the study’s author, the company’s own data “clearly

underlines adverse impacts on kidneys and liver, the dietary detoxifying

organs, as well as different levels of damages to heart, adrenal glands,

spleen and haematopoietic system.”

The Abstract:

We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ

system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized

genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are

present in food and feed in the world. NK 603 has been modified to be

tolerant to the broad spectrum herbicide Roundup and thus contains

residues of this formulation. MON 810 and MON 863 are engineered to

synthesize two different Bt toxins used as insecticides. Approximately

60 different biochemical parameters were classified per organ and

measured in serum and urine after 5 and 14 weeks of feeding. GM

maize-fed rats were compared first to their respective isogenic or

parental non-GM equivalent control groups. This was followed by

comparison to six reference groups, which had consumed various other

non-GM maize varieties. We applied nonparametric methods, including

multiple pairwise comparisons with a False Discovery Rate approach.

Principal Component Analysis allowed the investigation of scattering of

different factors (sex, weeks of feeding, diet, dose and group). Our

analysis clearly reveals for the 3 GMOs new side effects linked with GM

maize consumption, which were sex- and often dose-dependent. Effects

were mostly associated with the kidney and liver, the dietary

detoxifying organs, although different between the 3 GMOs. Other effects

were also noticed in the heart, adrenal glands, spleen and

haematopoietic system. We conclude that these data highlight signs of

hepatorenal toxicity, possibly due to the new pesticides specific to

each GM corn. In addition, unintended direct or indirect metabolic

consequences of the genetic modification cannot be excluded.

Keywords: GMO, toxicity, GM corn, rat, NK 603, MON 810, MON 863

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