Environmental

Study Finds Pregnant Women and Fetuses Contaminated with Pesticides Linked to Genetically Engineered Food

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–June 27, 2011. A study published in the May 2011 edition of the journal Reproductive Toxicology finds pregnant women and their fetuses contaminated with pesticides and metabolites of the herbicide gluphosinate and the Cry1Ab protein of the insecticide based on the bacterium bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), both affiliated with genetically engineered (GE) food. The study, “Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada,” also…

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