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FDA Urged to Ban Genetically Engineered Milk
Dr.Epstein, who is an emeritus professor with the School of Public Health in the University of Illinois, says Posilac poses major public health hazards. The UN moved on the issue a decade ago. The United Nations Food Safety Agency, representing 101 nations worldwide, unanimously ruled in 1999 not to endorse or set a safety standard for rBGH milk. Effectively, this has resulted in an international ban on U.S. milk, approximately 20 percent of which is rBGH.
But, Epstein complains, in the US, despite adequate documented evidence, the authorities are not acting. Dr. Epstein is an internationally recognized authority on avoidable causes of cancer, particularly unknowing exposures to industrial carcinogens in air, water, the workplace, and consumer products--food, cosmetics and toiletries, and household products including pesticides--besides carcinogenic prescription drugs.
Back in 2007, he and four other experts had moved the FDA on rBGH. In the absence of a response from the agency, Epstein re-presented the petition to Michael Taylor, Deputy Commissioner of the FDA on Jan.12.
Documented evidence against rBGH shows - reduction in short-chain fatty acid and increase in long-chain fatty acid levels; increase in levels of a thyroid hormone enzyme; contamination with unapproved drugs for treating mastitis; and frequency of pus cells due to mastitis.
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