美国医学博士挺身而出痛斥转基因食品是一场健康灾难

2015-9-28 13:19| 发布者: 风在手| 查看: 2665| 评论: 3|原作者: 陈一文

摘要: 两项最近的发展对整个格局造成的极大改变。第一项事件：应用于转基因作物的化学除草剂的总量与品种剧增，而且正在计划目前一代人期间最大的进一步增加。第二项事件：国际癌症研究机构已经分类最广泛用于转基因作物的 ...

The conservative, highly regarded New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial recommending labeling of all GM products, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not mandate.

较为保守的高度令人尊敬的《新英格兰医学杂志》发表了编辑部文章，推荐所有转基因产品都标识，美国食品药物管理暑（FDA）则不强制要求转基因食品标识。

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参考资料：

Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., and Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health, N Engl J Med 2015; 373:693-695August 20, 2015

Philip J. Landrigan，医学博士，与Charles Benbrook博士，转基因、除草剂，与公众健康，新英格兰医学杂志，2015年8月20日

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1505660

Two recent developments are dramatically changing the landscape.

两项最近的发展对整个格局造成的极大改变。

First, there have been sharp increases in the amounts and numbers of chemical herbicides applied to GM crops, and further increases — the largest in a generation — are scheduled.

第一项事件：应用于转基因作物的化学除草剂的总量与品种剧增，而且正在计划目前一代人期间最大的进一步增加。

Second, the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified glyphosate, the herbicide most widely used on GM crops, as a "probable human carcinogen" and classified a second herbicide as a "possible human carcinogen."

第二项事件：国际癌症研究机构已经分类最广泛用于转基因作物的除草剂草甘膦为“对人可能的致癌物”，而且分类另外一种除草剂（草胺膦）为“可能的人类致癌物”。

The Environmental Protection Agency's approval of the herbicides was made in haste, based on poorly designed, outdated studies and on an incomplete assessment of human exposure and environmental effects, the cancer research agency said. The editorial notes the science was based solely on studies commissioned by herbicide manufacturers in the 1980s and 1990s and never published.

国际癌症研究机构揭示，美国环保署对这些除草剂的批准都很仓促，基于设计不良、过时的研究，以及对人类接触和环境影响不完整的评估。《新英格兰医学杂志》发表了编辑部文章指出，与此有关的科学评价完全基于除草剂制造商80年代与90年代委托的至今从来没有公开发表过的研究。

Little consideration was given to potential health effects in infants and children, ignoring federal pesticide law. Ecologic impact, such as on the monarch butterfly and other pollinators, was not considered.

对这些除草剂的评估中，对婴儿与儿童潜在健康影响很少考虑，忽略了联邦农药法中这方面的规定。生态性影响，例如对帝王蝶和其他传粉昆虫的影响，也没有予以考虑。

Legislation denying mandatory labeling of GM food passed the House of Representatives. Kentucky representatives supported it. Andy Barr shunned efforts to consider the opposing view.

否认地方强制性标识转基因食品权利的法案在众议院已经通过。肯塔基州的州议员对这个法案给予了支持。州议员安迪·巴尔回避了考虑反对观点的努力。

Senators are scheduled to take up the debate soon. Will they be our heroes?

国会议员很快将展开对这个问题的激烈辩论。他们能否成为我们的英雄?我们拭目以待。