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If all this weren't enough, studies indicate that exposure to glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) increases the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other serious health concerns. [http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Non-Hodgkin-Lymphoma-Pesticides.htm][http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/7728/7728.html][http://www.ehponline.org/members/2001/109p851-857arbuckle/arbuckle-full.html][http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1764160][http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/33/9950].
SW: →Herbicide in Your Food: adding info
"In fact, while Roundup and similar products were originally used against weeds, '''they have become a food product, since they are used on GMOs, which can absorb them without dying'',' maintains the biochemist Gilles-Eric Séralini. A member for years of the French Commission on Biomolecular Genetics (CBG) [and also a member of [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.criigen.org/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCriigen%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Criigen]], responsible for preparing the files for requests for field studies, then GMO commercialization, he ceaselessly demands more intense studies on their eventual health impact" [http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/33/9950].
A recent study testing the effects of glyphosate on human cells which "corresponds to low levels of residues in food or feed" has found that "the proprietary mixtures available on the market could cause cell damage and even death around residual levels to be expected, especially in food and feed derived from R[oundup] formulation-treated crops" [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx800218n?cookieSet=1&journalCode=crtoec Glyphosate Formulations Induce Apoptosis and Necrosis in Human Umbilical, Embryonic, and Placental Cells].
And though disputed by Monsanto, studies have also indicated that exposure to glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) increases the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other serious health concerns. [http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Non-Hodgkin-Lymphoma-Pesticides.htm][http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/7728/7728.html][http://www.ehponline.org/members/2001/109p851-857arbuckle/arbuckle-full.html][http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1764160][http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/33/9950].
This exposure to herbicides will likely increase if Monsanto/Dow's new SmartStax™ technology gains approval which they predict by the end of the decade. In addition to applications of glyphosate corn can also be doused with Dow's LibertyLink glufosinate herbicide [http://news.dow.com/dow_news/corporate/2007/20070914a.htm]. SmartStax will combine ("stack") eight different genes for insect control and herbicide tolerance. The benefit for Monsanto will be increasing control of the market and greater profit, "Stacking traits not only provides farmers with one-stop
shopping, ''it represents incremental margin on a bag of seed corn for Monsanto''" says Monsanto's Robert Fraley [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-08-2003/0001942873&EDATE=]. Further, tolerance of other herbicides, such as [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=BEEC59D8-E7F2-99DF-399F4FBCDAD2FC74&sc=I100322 dicamba] will likely be added in time. Though applications of dicamba is meant to alternate with glyphosate as a response to resistance.
==Fraud in Testing and Advertising==
