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GM Maize Approved In EU Caused Kidney Disease And Bladder Stones In Rats
sustainablepulse.com
A Monsanto genetically modified (GMO) insecticidal maize that has been approved for food and feed use in Europe for seven years was found to cause kidney disease and bladder stones in rats in industry’s own tests, GM Watch reported on Wednesday.
Before the maize was approved, several EU member states raised concerns about these results and the implications for food safety. But the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) dismissed the concerns and gave a favourable opinion on the GMO maize. With the usual lack of agreement from EU member states on whether to authorize the maize, the Commission approved it in 2011.
Since then, the GM trait associated with these adverse effects, known as MON89034, has been crossed with other GM maize varieties to form “stacked trait” GM crops containing multiple GM traits. As each new stacked trait GMO has come up for approval, member states have continued to draw attention to the adverse health impacts in the rats fed on MON89034 in the original feeding studies. France in particular has repeatedly raised concerns about the kidney and bladder effects in rats fed MON89034.
But EFSA has continued to downplay these experimental findings. It has issued favourable opinions that have led to the Commission taking the decision to approve nine stacked trait maize varieties containing MON89034.
Kidney and bladder adverse effects
EFSA asserted that this GM maize was as safe as non-GMO maize in spite of findings in Monsanto’s own studies that two out of 20 female rats that ate the high dose of GM maize (33% of the total diet) developed kidney damage and bladder stones. One of the two rats died after just two weeks on the GM diet.
EFSA reported that the changes in the two rats included “minimal” chronic progressive kidney disease or damage, minimal to moderate transitional cell hyperplasia (cell proliferation that can be a precursor to cancer of the urinary system), inflammation, and hydronephrosis (presence of water in the kidneys due to obstruction). EFSA added that both rats had “urinary bladder calculi” – bladder stones. The study pathologist concluded that the tissue abnormalities observed were probably linked to the stones.
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