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Old 14-05-2012, 11:34 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On 14/05/2012 10:58, Martin wrote:


According to the Dutch government there is evidence that glyphosate
causes degenerative damage to the nervous system leading to things
like Parkinson's disease (The results of a study made in Shanghai


The only reports I can find of this are on Organic(TM) crank sites and
anti-Monsanto sites.


Martin may be referring to

A 2011 case study published in the journal Parkinsonism Related Disorders,
entitled "Parkinsonism after chronic occupational exposure to
glyphosate,"

Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2011 Jul;17(6):486-7. Epub 2011 Mar 2. PMID:
21367645
Author(s):

Gang Wang, Xiao-Ning Fan, Yu-Yan Tan, Qi Cheng, Sheng-Di Chen

Department of Neurology&Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital affiliated
to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025,
China.

or

an article published in the journal of Neurotoxicology and Teratology
published this month (April, 2012), entitled "Glyphosate induced cell
death through apoptotic and authophagic mechanisms"

Janet