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Roundup Unready
You tell em billbo...Yeah! after all what could some analytical
chemist know about detrimental effects...end sarcasm On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:55:10 -0500, Stephen Sassman wrote: I should not, and I did not. Perhaps you are confusing my post with something that someone else has posted. My point was that just because this chemical does not cause this specific kind of cancer does not mean that it doesn't cause other cancers or have some detrimental affect on the endocrine system. It is wrong to say that a chemical is safe or not safe unless you take many factors into account (acute toxicity, chronic toxicity, carcinogenicity, environmental fate, endocrine disruption, etc.). Even if thorough research has been conducted, there is the chance that some unexpected problem will rear its ugly head 20 or 30 years down the road (remember DDT). Bill Oliver wrote: In article , Stephen Sassman wrote: So if the government says its OK, we can dump thousands of tons of it onto our crops? They also said that DDT was completely safe. Just because it doesn't cause cancer doesn't mean that it is safe. You don't mention the possibility of endocrine disruption. So, if the authors of the article state that there is not an association between Roundup and non-Hodgkins lymphoma under multivariate analysis, you should not claim that they say there is one. billo |
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