Glyphosate Cancer Studies Conflict Within the EPA

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LINKS REFERENCED IN THIS PODCAST

Prequel Podcast — Watch this first if possible
https://walkamileproject.com/glyphosate-cancer-studies-monsanto-and-the-epa-gmo-truth-podcast-7/

Eric on The Chalene Show
http://www.chalenejohnson.com/podcasts/the-scientific-crime-of-the-century-gmos-with-eric-battersby/

Roundup Products Liability Litigation
http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/VC/roundupmdl

Judge Threatens to Sanction Monsanto in Roundup Trial
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/judge-threatens-to-sanction-monsanto-for-secrecy-in_us_58c2de66e4b0c3276fb78433

EPA 1991 Glyphosate Peer Review
https://archive.epa.gov/pesticides/chemicalsearch/chemical/foia/web/pdf/103601/417300-1991-10-30a.pdf

EPA Risk Assessment for Carcinogenic Effects
https://www.epa.gov/fera/risk-assessment-carcinogenic-effects

EPA Shoots Down Monsanto’s “Historical Data Proof” on Mouse Study
https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/cleared_reviews/csr_PC-103601_26-Feb-85_170.pdf

IARC Monograph on Glyphosate
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVolume112.pdf

The Rise of Glyphosate
https://walkamileproject.com/lp/rise-of-glyphosate-in-us/

GMO TRUTH #11 HIGHLIGHTS

0:44 — Check out Eric’s interview on The Chalene Show!

1:40 — Please Subscribe, Rate, Review!

2:25 — Podcast #11 is the sequel to #7 – Glyphosate Cancer Studies: Monsanto and the EPA

2:40 — A Walk a Mile Project Exclusive, get yer popcorn ready! These next FOUR podcasts are all going to be BIG!

2:55 — Two years in the making, but glyphosate now takes center stage again for two more podcasts

3:50 — Party like it’s 1991… EPA’s Glyphosate Peer Review

4:10 — Jean Parker gives The Walk a Mile Project an exclusive statement on her non-concur

9:10 — Take a deep breath and prepare for the rest of the story…

9:30 — Two different takes from two different EPA employees, Penny Fenner-Crisp interview up next

10:55 — Penny Fenner-Crisp phone interview begins

12:00 — Penny discusses the EPA’s change from a “C” to an “E”

12:58 –“Not statistically significant” tumors

15:00 — Back to the mouse study briefly

15:40 — Penny looks at the rat study data, the tumors “weren’t treatment related”

17:55 — Pairwise comparisons

20:11 — Jean vs. Penny, “there are and have been minor to major philosophical differences across programs in the agency (the EPA)”

21:54 — Data aside, was there outside pressure for a Group E classification?

22:55 — A short detour to adenomas vs carcinomas

24:55 — Back to the outside pressure question…

25:49 — Did Monsanto ever make an appearance?

26:20 — Registrants (Monsanto, etc.) would go to the department head if they didn’t like results, not other employees

27:12 — “We would’ve concluded that we didn’t have all the information we would like to have before a regulatory decision was made, but it was made anyway.”

28:07 — Another short detour, Penny’s work at WHO and FAO

29:25 — The ubiquity of glyphosate

30:20 — Penny is quietly surprised by glyphosate’s volume, “probably because… of all the GMOs… the Roundup.”

31:25 — The meteoric rise of glyphosate wasn’t even on the EPAs radar back in 1991.

32:08 — “We were only thinking about it in terms of the old-fashioned, conventional uses.”

32:48 — How the EPA’s Registration Renewal works

35:10 — Does Penny think the EPA made the right decision in 1991, based on the key assumption Jean Parker also mentioned (that the data was presented accurately for this review)?

37:15 — Wrapping up, preparing for the GMO TRUTH that will drop in GMO TRUTH Podcast Episode #12, less than a week away…

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