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Moim zdaniem stosowanie herbicydu w wodzie biezacej, z ktorej czerpie sie wode pitna, do nawadniania upraw lub hodowli zwierzat jest niedopuszczalne. Kansas i Missouri od kilu lat juz pozywaja do sadu Nebraske za brak reform ograniczajacych splyw herbicydow do Missouri i Kansas River. Badania moich kolegow z Kansas State U. wskazuja ze wiekszosc herbicyudow tworzy tzw. addukty klejac sie bezposrednio do DNA i uruchamiajac rozmaite procesy ktore potencjalnie moga prowadzic do nowotworow i zaburzen endokrynalnych. Co innego stawy - tam herbicydy maja szanse zostac zdegradowane biologicznie, ale nie radzilbym nikomu jesc ryb z takich stawow.
Monsanto ma bardzo dobry marketing i nie cofa sie przed niczym, ale - z drugiej strony korzysta z podejrzanych laboratoriow do testowania swoich produktow. Nie jestem tez pewny czy stosowanie Roundupu w wodzach jest legalne w EU. Dyrektywy, ktore pamietam byly jednoznacznie negatywne.
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In 1996 Monsanto was accused of false and misleading advertising of glyphosate products, prompting a law suit by the New York State attorney general.[12]
On Fri Jan 20, 2007, Monsanto was convicted of false advertising of Roundup for presenting Roundup as biodegradable and claiming that it left the soil clean after use. Environmental and consumer rights campaigners brought the case in 2001 on the basis that glyphosate, Roundup's main ingredient, is classed as "dangerous for the environment" and "toxic for aquatic organisms" by the European Union. Monsanto France planned to appeal the verdict at the time. [13]
On two occasions the American EPA has caught scientists deliberately falsifying test results at research laboratories hired by Monsanto to study glyphosate.[14][15][16] In the first incident involving Industrial Biotest Laboratories, an EPA reviewer stated after finding "routine falsification of data" that it was "hard to believe the scientific integrity of the studies when they said they took specimens of the uterus from male rabbits".[17][18][19] In the second incident of falsifying test results in 1991, the owner of the lab (Craven Labs), and three employees were indicted on 20 felony counts, the owner was sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined 50,000 dollars, the lab was fined 15.5 million dollars and ordered to pay 3.7 million in restitution.[20][21][22] Craven laboratories performed studies for 262 pesticide companies including Monsanto.
A review of the toxicological data on Roundup […] concluded that there were some risks to aquatic organisms exposed to Roundup in shallow water. More recent research suggests glyphosate induces a variety of functional abnormalities in fetuses and pregnant rats.[29] Also in recent mammalian research, glyphosate has been found to interfere with an enzyme involved testosterone production in mouse cell culture[30] and to interfere with an estrogen biosynthesis enzyme in cultures of Human Placental cells.[31]
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