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The AFP has done an explosive revelation. Of agribusiness giants are seeking to recruit individuals to influence the European decision-making in favor of GMOs and obtain permits and culture. The method used is very controversial…

Indeed, the famous news agency managed to get an email, dated October 5, in which EuropaBio, the association behind a very pretty name represents the interests of Monsanto, BASF and other major industry groups in Europe indicates that several personalities of the world have”expressed interest” to become”ambassadors” of the cause of GMOs. Among them, the former French Socialist Minister Claude Allegre, former European Commissioner Chris Patten British, Irish singer Bob Geldof and former Irish Commissioner David Byrne.

We also learn in this letter that the former Secretary General of the UN, Kofi Annan and British environmental journalist Mark Lynas would also expressed their attention to join them in order to”help Europe to reconsider its position on the GM crops”.

Any financial reward but covered expenses

The overwhelming factor for EuropaBio is a companion document to this email detailing the proposed working method to”ambassadors”. He cites five options:”an open letter to the Financial Times in which the signatories called for the EU to reconsider its position”, for”meetings with media arranged by the secretariat of the program and items placed in the media”, the”meetings” and”dinner debate” with officials of the European Union in Brussels. While explaining that” there will be no financial reward of ambassadors, but EuropaBio will provide the secretariat of the program funds to cover necessary expenses such as travel and hotel expenses.”

The agribusiness giants, frustrated by the negative perception of GM crops in Europe would try to look so fake support among the powerful to influence the decision process. However, the Monsanto group’s interest to get this support since one of its products, the Corn 810, awaiting the renewal of its authorization of culture for over a year. Within the EU, already seven countries (France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Luxembourg, Austria and Bulgaria) are dam and want to ban its cultivation in their territory.

While she has been unmasked EuropaBio will incur the wrath of anti-GM, already very angry against the structure. Also hope that this event will help to discredit the statements of some climate skeptics as Claude Allegre with a particular vision of development and progress. For the latter nuclear and GMO are factors of progress. For environmentalists, they endanger human health and the environment.

For the first time ever, the confidential testing of Monsanto, who have international approvals of three commercialized GMOs, have been valued by researchers against the Criigen (Committee for Research and Independent Information on Genetic Engineering), the University of Caen and Rouen. The study, published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences, shows the harmfulness of these three GM maize.

From this study, these GMO produce insecticides (MON810, MON863) or absorb the weedkiller Roundup (NK603). But they are already reflected in some of our food and animal feeding stuffs.

” This international publication shows specific effects associated with consumption of each GMO, differentiated by sex and dose. They are associated with liver and kidney, major organs react during a chemical food poisoning. Other adverse affect heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells,”attests Criigen.

For scientists, the tests as short and with so few animals studied per group can not provide final evidence of toxicity or safety.

“However, they are quite disturbing to demand that studies be redone on a longer, multi-species and generations with a number of individuals to ensure sufficient power of statistical tests. Pending the results of such studies, import and the cultivation of these GMOs must be firmly prohibited,”warns the Criigen.

Meanwhile, the Committee for Research and Independent Information on Genetic Engineering denounces the previous opinions of the EFSA, AFSSA and CGB, committees and European French Food Safety,”who commented on the absence of risk on these tests only 90 days, for which they have not themselves examined in detail the statistics”.

The Criigen highlights”the conflict of interest and incompetence of these committees to appraise against this publication; because they have already voted positively on the same tests ignoring the side effects.”

A meeting of ministers of the European Union concerning MON810 and NK603 be held today.

A new scientific study shows that agricultural pesticides used within 1250 meters of homes end up contaminating the inside of these houses!

A team of U.S. scientists led by Mary H. Ward, the National Cancer Institute, sought to know from where the pesticide residues found in carpets and residences. For this they collected samples of dust in carpets and rugs of 89 homes in California and then analyzed pesticide residues 7 widely used in agriculture (carbaryl, chlorpyrifos, chlorthal-dimethyl, diazinon, iprodione, phosmet and simazine). They then mapped the cultures within 1250 m of such residences and calculated the intensity of use of these pesticides within 500 m and 1250 m around residences studied during three different time periods before the dust sampling: 180 days, 365 days and 730 days. Finally they looked for possible relationships between the use of pesticides and estimated concentrations of pesticides in carpets / rugs.

Results: In case of use of agricultural pesticides within 1250 m around houses during the 365 days preceding the removal of dust, the samples had pesticide concentrations significantly higher than in homes around which there was non-use of agricultural pesticides, for five pesticides studied (chlorpyrifos, chlorthal-dimethyl, iprodione, phosmet and simazine). The strongest correlation with the concentrations of pesticides in carpets tended to use agricultural pesticides within 1250 meters around the houses during the previous 730 days. The home and office use of pesticides by residents in this study had a minor impact on the variability of the concentration of pesticides found (4 to 28% only). The authors conclude that the use of agricultural pesticides around these homes is a significant determinant for the presence of these five pesticides in carpets / rugs of these houses.

This study shows that the use of agricultural pesticides, some of which are suspected carcinogens, has an impact on the contamination of neighboring dwellings, and thus the air we breathe every day their inhabitants, within (1250m) much larger than previously thought, a previous study showing an impact within 750 meters.

For the Association Future Generations,”these results are very important. They show us that we must absolutely preserve the order dated September 12, 2006 which provides in Article 2 that the pesticide” may not be used as a spray that… if the wind to a degree of intensity less than or equal to 3 on the Beaufort scale”(19km / h) to limit their spread in the neighborhood and the contamination of local residents. This order is in fact disputed by the National Federation Fruit Producers (FNPF), after the recent trial of three growers in the area of Brive accused of using pesticides in high winds, whose verdict was reserved to March 10.”

“We must both maintain that order, and only thin protection against contamination by agricultural pesticides available to residents of farming areas, and restore the momentum of Ecophyto 2018 plan which provides 50% reduction of pesticides in 10 years” Francis has said Veillerette spokesman Future Generations.”Instead of denying the environmental consequences of excessive use of pesticides, farming should finally accept, as we move into the Salon de l’Agriculture, that we are facing a real public health problem and we must together seek to implement forms of agriculture less dependent on pesticides, in order to best comply with the health of users themselves, and those consumers and residents”, he added.

ITEM A 10:30 p.m. – Vladimir Putin won the presidential election in Russia in the first round with more than 64% of the vote. After a hiatus of four years as prime minister, he received a six-year term at the head of a country shaken by an unprecedented wave of political protest in recent months.

Putin declared victory at the foot of the Kremlin in front of tens of thousands of his supporters, praising those who “said yes to the” Great Russia “.

- The opposition has denounced major fraud. The Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov came in second place, far behind, called the election “unworthy” and “illegitimate.” A major opposition rally in Moscow is scheduled Monday, and in other Russian cities to protest against the return of Putin in the Kremlin. END OF DIRECT

10:08 p.m. – “Vladimir Vladimirovich, we’re with you!” – Vladimir Putin shakes hands of supporters gathered at his staff. “All I was saying, just what my colleagues, it is feasible and will be realized,” says he in reference to his campaign promises.

9:59 p.m. – Thousands of cases of fraud – control2012.ru The site, set up to account for offenses detected by the League of Voters, the Democratic Party Yabloko supporters of the candidate and billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, was recorded in the evening more than 5,200 cases of fraud. This site recensait including 114 cases of ballot stuffing and 327 cases of “mass transportation of voters”, a technique that allows a group to vote multiple times in different offices through fraudulent authorizations.

9:39 p.m. – Counting midterm – The counting is done in 50% of offices. Putin is at 64.39% of the vote. The Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov came in second with 17.13%. Participation is 64%.

9:33 p.m. – The post-victory – Putin, smiling, arrives in his staff. The program includes a video conferencing session with his supporters in the regions. He first thanked the factory workers Ouralvagonzavod, specializing in military and railway equipment, in the Urals, for their “very effective and timely support.” A worker, moved, congratulate him in return on behalf of his colleagues and says, “we showed everyone that it is the people themselves who chooses his destiny.” Follow the Kamchatka in the Far East, Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) in the North, and Saratov, the Volga region.

9:27 p.m. – Dispersion – The demonstration in support of Putin is over, and almost all of its enthusiastic supporters walked away. Manege Square is nearly empty and quiet. As for the tear that everyone has noted in the eye of the victor, was really due to emotion or strong wind that was blowing? “It was a real tear, caused by wind,” said Putin.

9:15 p.m. – OVER 64% OF – Putin surpasses 64% after counting 46.5% of polling stations. With 64.06% of the vote, ahead of his second widely, the communist Zyuganov who won only 17.23%.

9:10 p.m. – Loss – The nationalist candidate Vladimir Mironov Jirinovksi centrist and recognize the results and … their defeat. “We believe that the results are real,” said Mironov, who gets nearly 4% of the votes only. “I have to admit it. The people voted, and I saw that they were voting primarily for Putin,” adds Zhirinovsky, whose score is only about 7%.

8:59 p.m. – “A candidate, four shadows” – The Russian blogosphere proves divided in their comments. “The people have chosen”, “The national leader has won,” ‘There was only one candidate and four shadows, “wrote Russian blogger on livejournal.com. Others showed their discontent.” There are elections in Russia, but there is no choice. ”

8:46 p.m. – Victory culinary … – Should we see the first result of the election? At the headquarters of Putin, the menu offered to journalists and guests abruptly enriched after the announcement of preliminary results. Finished the sandwiches, place meat in cold starters, fish, fruit and various cheeses. And even sushi … as in the candidate billionaire Prokhorov. Alcohol is banned, however.

Tears in her eyes

8:12 p.m. – “Good day” – “This is a very good day for us today”. President Medvedev, in short black coat, was alongside his mentor. “We needed this win, we needed this win to have a modern, strong and independent”.

8:03 p.m. – Putin is still growing – The counting is now done in 30% of polling stations. Putin gets 63.42% of the vote. The Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov came in second with 17.25%. “It’s a great day for our country,” rejoices Koutcherova Natalia, 31 years: “Putin is our country and does it well,” said the young woman wearing a scarf “Russia” in the colors of the country.

8:01 p.m. – “Great Russia” – The crowd chanted the name of the future president, who comes to claim his victory. “It was an important test for us all,” Putin launches, the collar of his black parka unbuttoned. “We proved that no one can impose on us. Nothing and no one”. Among his other sentences: “I want to thank all Russian citizens who participated in the poll, those who support us in every corner of our vast country, all those who said” Yes “to the great Russia.” “Our voters know the difference between the desire for renewal and political provocation that aims to destroy our state.” “We won today, and thanks to the overwhelming support of the overwhelming majority of voters we got a vital victory.” “We will work honestly and intensely, we will have success and we call on everyone to unite around our interests and our homeland.” “I promised you that we will win, and we won.” “Glory to Russia!” Putin concluded.

7:54 p.m. – “WE WIN IN A FIGHT OPEN AND HONEST” Putin launches, apparently moved to tears, before more than 110,000 of his supporters.

7:52 p.m. – Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev COMES SALUTE THE CROWD AT THE FOOT OF THE KREMLIN -

7:45 p.m. – Attack in Dagestan – Three policemen were killed in an attack against a polling station in the District of Khasavyurt in western Dagestan, one hour after closing, according to authorities. A rebel was also killed. This volatile Caucasus Russian republic is particularly affected by the violence.

7:38 p.m. – An era of stagnation? – If Putin will end up without a shot being fired as president, the future is perhaps not too bright for him. This time because it will manage an unprecedented political challenge and a country threatened with stagnation. “This is not to stability but as we move into stagnation, the economy is not growing and the system is not effective,” said political analyst Alexander Konovalov well. Sentiment shared by another expert, Mark Ournov: “The system needs fundamental reforms, political and economic, but there is no financial or political resources to do so.”

7:34 p.m. – “Dishonest” – This is how the candidate billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who is around 7 to 8% of the vote, described the conditions of the electoral process. “But I accepted this challenge and I ran for president,” he said on Russian television. He further wants to create “a political party that will fight for power”.

“We are for Putin!”

7:30 p.m. – Goal 2024? – Elected the first round with more than 60% of the vote for a term of six years – possibly renewable – Vladimir Putin can theoretically expect to stay in the Kremlin until 2024. That would make him the leader as long in power since Stalin.

7:20 p.m. – Rising – After counting a quarter of the polling stations, Putin is now credited with 63.17% of the vote.

7:06 p.m. – “I trust him” – Supporters of Putin, his eyes shining with joy, justify their support. “The president as normal you can imagine,” said one. “President Putin is a perfect”, provide others. The police now stands at 110,000 the number of supporters – for a while yet – Prime Minister Putin.

7:02 p.m. – “A real human sea.” Russian television and announced that more than 100,000 supporters of Putin show in downtown Moscow. Images, the crowd, imposing, chanting “we are for Putin”. According to AFP journalists, people continue to arrive.

6:59 p.m. – OVER 70,000 SUPPORTERS OF PUTIN gathered near KREMLIN TO SUPPORT THEIR WINNER – This figure is given by the police.

6:54 p.m. – Appointment Monday – No opposition group has not officially called to protest tonight. But an appeal was made to a large gathering Pushkin Square in central Moscow tomorrow night. This will be crucial for the future of the protest movement. A diverse coalition that mobilized the past three months tens of thousands of demonstrators. With a slogan: “Russia without Putin”.

6:48 p.m. – Illegitimate – Vladimir Ryzhkov, one of the organizers of opposition demonstrations in recent months, Judge, as the PC, as “a parameter does not consider this election as legitimate.”

“Election of thieves!”

6:40 p.m. – fortified zone – A very large police forces were mobilized in central Moscow. The authorities announced the deployment of some 36,500 men, including soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Interior Ministry. Officially it is “to ensure full enforcement and public safety.” In places, this presence gives the city the appearance of a fortified camp.

6:36 p.m. – THE COMMUNIST CANDIDATE DENOUNCES “AN ELECTION OF THIEVES, DISHONEST AND ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS” – Gennady Zyuganov, black suit and red tie, appeared before the cameras shortly after the announcement of preliminary results. It ensures that the PC does “not recognize this election illegitimate.” “This election is proof that wipes his feet on the country and its citizens”.

6:32 p.m. – “Evening Soiree” – Russian television while serving Putin mocks the election night held at the headquarters of Mikhail Prokhorov. The headquarters of the billionaire candidate is housed in an ultramodern building. A fully glazed facade can contemplate the beautiful view at night on the banks of the Moskva River. For journalists: champagne and sushi.

6:25 p.m. – Under 10% – The first results rank third populist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, with 8% of the vote, followed by the billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, with 7.5% of the centrist and the Kremlin Sergei Mironov who gets only 3.67%.

6:21 p.m. – “The more transparent” – While the accusations of fraud are many, the campaign manager assures Putin on TV: these elections are the “most transparent in the history of Russia.” Stanivslav Govorukhin announces that “Vladimir Vladimirovich collects four times more votes than his nearest opponent.” He thanked the supporters of Prime Minister who “openly demonstrated their support and love” for that candidate.

6:15 p.m. – Communists in second place – far behind Putin, their representative, Gennady Zyuganov, received 17.8% of the vote, according to preliminary results. Former Soviet apparatchik, Zyuganov, 67, is in his fourth presidential campaign. Committed to the ideals of the USSR, he drags the image of an “eternal second”. His party has in fact never been a real threat to the power of Putin.

6:10 p.m. – “No second round” – Supporters of Putin leave their joy. “There will be no second round. We expect the first-round victory,” says the director Stanislav Govorukhin, Putin’s campaign manager.

6:04 p.m. – GIVE THE FIRST RESULTS OF VOTES 61.80% PUTIN TO WHICH IS THEREFORE ELECTED TO FIRST ROUND – This is not a surprise. This is based on the count of 14.5% of polling stations, electoral commission announces the Russian.

6:02 p.m. – Clos – Voting is now finished, with the closure of the remaining offices in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave on the outskirts of the EU, in the far west. “Early tomorrow morning, there are unveiling the first preliminary results after counting 99% of ballots,” says the head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Tchorov.

6:01 p.m. – PUTIN WOULD RECEIVE 58.3% OF VOTES, SAYS exit poll VTSIOM CENTRE, NEAR POWER – The Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov would be -17, 7%. Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is credited with 9.2% of the vote.

5:42 p.m. – The failures of webcams – They were supposed to provide, directly, the transparency of the vote: 180,000 webcams equip the 90,000 polling stations. But AFP journalists in Moscow found that the picture hangs regularly, the urn is often invisible, the sound disappears, and the connection is not perfect. To see the official website http://webvybory2012.ru.

Fraud

5:35 p.m. – Four opponents – Vladimir Putin is opposed to four candidates. The Communist Gennady Zyuganov ranked second in the polls with 15-20%. The others are the populist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, a newcomer in politics and centrist Sergei Mironov. No member of the radical opposition was allowed to stand.

5:30 p.m. – Cameras – Dozens of cameras are already waiting Putin at his headquarters in central Moscow. The favorite voted by midday in Moscow with his wife, Lyudmila. Laconic comment: “I slept well, I played sports, then I came here.”

5:28 p.m. – Fraud – The poll will he honest? Representatives of some candidates, opponents, the election observation organizations Golos and the League of Voters and independent media have already reported a series of frauds. The opposition party Yabloko denounced the “fraud of scale” in Moscow, the same people voted in different offices, and bundles of ballots were cast at the polls in Bryansk, Tambov, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk. An AFP journalist saw, for his part in the square Bolotnaïa Moscow more than a hundred buses that led thousands of young people from other regions.

5:22 p.m. – Police – Dozens of trucks and police are deployed in the center of Moscow, near the famous Bolshoi Theatre. “There are so many policemen in the center, as if people were going to impeach the president, not the elect,” said Andrey Kozenko blogger.

5:15 p.m. – “Beautiful” – The participation exceeds 50% less than an hour before the close of last offices. “I had to make a long tail here. It’s beautiful! I hate when people do not vote and are outraged after it has chosen for them,” exclaimed the engineer in Moscow Igor Kolosov, 40 years.

5:05 p.m. – Until Kaliningrad – Voting opened Saturday night in the Far East, must end with the close of business of Kaliningrad, in the far west, at 8:00 p.m. local time (1700 GMT, 1800 Paris). Initial estimates and a survey should be announced shortly thereafter. At 3:00 p.m. Moscow time (11:00 GMT), participation was 47.6%.

LIVE – Some 109 million Russians are called to elect their president. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s favorite arch-hand: the polls credited them 60% of the votes before the election. But if the outcome is little doubt that consultation takes place in a climate of unprecedented challenge. Country’s strongman, former KGB, Putin left the presidency to his subordinate Dmitry Medvedev in 2008.

The absence or decrease in sexual desire is the sexual disorder most frequently encountered in women. It represents 41% of these sexual disorders according to the survey on sexual behavior of the French. New avenues of treatment are emerging? …

The decline in female sexual desire is hormonally

If the decline in sexual desire is common in women, it is even more common in women whose ovaries have been surgically removed. This seems to correlate with a decrease in testosterone in the blood.

Testosterone is involved in the loss of female sexual desire

The testosterone is a hormone considered the hormone ‘male’, as it makes hair grow, moult voice, makes oily skin? … However, this testosterone is also present in small amounts in women, and small amount of this hormone appears to play an important role in sexual desire . Thus, when a woman is made ​​for an oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries by the surgeon), it is surgically menopausal. Hormones previously produced by the ovaries will then fail, hormones that contribute to testosterone circulating in the blood. These women without ovaries are therefore more problems of sexual desire than women.

HSDD: treatment available in patch

Based on this observation, studies have shown that supplementation with drug testosterone could restore the sexual desire in oophorectomized women. A treatment (Intrinsa ®) is available to these women to find great sex. This is a patch treatment, self-adhesive stamp. This treatment is reserved for those women operated … This type of research also opens the door to other, more extended, taking into account women still having their ovaries and estimating their sexual desire very low or absent. Their testosterone levels , it is very humbled, could be involved. But one should keep in mind that as decreasing testosterone levels is far from the only cause of low sexual desire. There are, of More reasons to feel little desire : other hormones may be involved (increase in the hormone prolactin, for example), medicine (causing an inhibition of sexual desire ), but also concerns personal or psychological difficulties torque … Even if the search for understanding new things, a single drug alone will not solve the riddle of all desires lost.

Anses published in late September, two reports highlighting the health effects of  Bisphenol A (BPA) found in animals and humans suspected” even at low exposure levels.” Following these alarming publications, the proposed law to ban the use of BPA in food packaging received, Thursday, Oct. 6, and government support of the majority.

The Health Minister Xavier Bertrand said the government supported the text and wanted to go even further. Indeed, while the text proposed ban from 1 January 2014 to manufacture, import, export and marketing of all food packaging containing BPA, Xavier Bertrand introduced an amendment to ban from 1 January 2013 the use of BPA in all food containers for children under three years . This is so they avoid contact with BPA that could be even more harmful when they are in the throes of development and growth.

Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet has announced Friday that a Franco-Swedish note referring to the report of the National Agency for Food Safety, Environment and Labour (handles) on BPA will be presented Environmental Council in the day Monday.

If manufacturers believe that the time is too short to find in some plastic containers a  substitute to BPA , remember that countries such as Denmark and Costa Rica and some U.S. states have already taken the plunge.

France was one of the first European countries to take action against bisphenol A by banning the manufacture, importation and sale of baby bottles containing the substance, in June 2010. Based on new observations alarming in terms of health the Government has decided to go much further.

Interview with André Cicolella, chemist, toxicologist and spokesperson for the Environmental Health Network (RES) by Christian BuffetProduction. Source: TV Universcience 2011

For years, the researchers alerted policymakers to the dangers of  bisphenol A (BPA), to human health, animal and biodiversity, and called for its ban, especially in the manufacture of food containers (bottles, trays and cutlery plastic, cans, cans …).

(Read the articles published on the file bioaddict.fr:  The Unbearable Lightness of the European Agency for Food Safety says that the effects of BPA on health)

The government eventually decided to hear them and, a year ago, in a first step by banning baby bottles containing the substance.

But a new report has just been released by ANSES, the National Agency of Health Security, reported new evidence: “It highlights the health effects of bisphenol A, found in animals and suspected in humans “.

The implementation of the  precautionary principle is therefore to Xavier Bertrand, Minister of Health, “legitimate and even necessary”. So he decided initially to “reduce priority exposure to the substance of the people who are most vulnerable: infants, young children, pregnant and lactating women”.

In this sense a bill has been passed by the National Assembly. Filed by Gerard Bapt and modified at the end of a working committee of the majority and the opposition it seeks to prohibit any packaging containing bisphenol A for receiving food from 1 January 2014. It provides also required the establishment of a warning advising against the use of products containing bisphenol A to pregnant women and those who chose breastfeeding, and children up to three years. The Government wants to go even further in 2013 by banning food containers made ??with BPA for children up to three years.

Of course the manufacturers will have to replace bisphenol A by other products. But to avoid any further risk of toxicity a report delivered to Parliament on the safety of substitutes later than October 31, 2012. The Minister for Ecology, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet has asked the National Institute of industrial environment and risks to open by late 2011 a platform for information and discussion on alternative products.

One can only rejoice to see that the Government has finally taken awareness of the dangers of bisphenol A in terms of public health, and engaged in practical measures to prevent. But that time is wasted on this issue by our politicians. And damage future health that could have been avoided.

I would not be in place for researchers, and agencies responsible for food safety, which for years have fiercely denied the toxicity of bisphenol A, and disparaged those who alerted to the dangers of this substance …

Avoid exposure of the most sensitive and accelerate research to replace bisphenol A in the manufacture of plastic are two priorities highlighted by the National Health Security. Are in hand, the National Assembly ratified a bill to ban the presence of Bisphenol A in food.

In July 2010, Parliament voted to ban the  endocrine disruptor in baby bottles. But it is also present in cans, cans, plastic bottles, the supermarket checkout receipts and many other plastic items in sixty sectors. However, the  BPA has “devastating health, found in animals and suspected in humans, even at low exposure levels, “has finally recognized the National Security Agency for Food, Environment and Labour (handles).

So far the handles was the ostrich, not taking into account that the studies conducted according to the protocol of Good Laboratory Practice, a protocol dating back 70 years and considered “obsolete” by the Environment Health Network (RES). This change in position of the handles is due Tuesday, Sept. 27 publication of two reports: one on health effects and the other uses of bisphenol A. Already known for its effects of endocrine disruptors in particular on the fertility of women, both reports suggest that BPA may also be linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes or breast cancer.

Paradigm shift

The Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly voted by a large majority, Wednesday, Sept. 28, a bill to suspend the manufacture and marketing of packaging for food purposes while containing bisphenol A (BPA) from 1 January 2014. MEPs said that such a delay was needed to enable manufacturers to develop alternatives to BPA and health authorities to ensure their safety. This bill will be discussed in public session on October 6 and voted on by MPs on October 12. This vote represents “great satisfaction” to Gerard Bapt (PS, Haute-Garonne), who was the first mayor to ban bisphenol A in baby bottles in his commune of Saint-Jean, in June 2009.

At the sight of the first elements of its evaluation work on the health risks of Bisphenol A, the application handles manufacturers to provide all information about products that can replace this substance, particularly for products in contact with food . For its part the Environmental Health Network (RES), which made ??one of his hobby horses since its inception three years ago, offers  an “overview of alternatives to BPA” on its website . For the RES, it is not really a problem, an American food company, Eden Foods, already offering since 1999 cans free of BPA. *

Limit daily intake

RES for the next step is to limit the tolerable daily intake to 25 picograms / kilogram / ??day, 2 million times lower than the current standard. Which would amount to ban it. European authorities will they go in the direction of France, as they had done for  BPA in baby bottles ?

Following the publication of these studies, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet announced that she was in favor of a systematic labeling of products containing this chemical. But how many consumers take the time to read labels? And what alternative do they have, when virtually all products containing plastic? Also, remember that this is already a recommendation from the French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA, now merged into the handles) for containers and household utensils.

Three recent studies have confirmed that bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine disruptor, is involved in type 2 diabetes accounting for 90% of cases of diabetes in humans.

2 diabetes is a chronic disease becoming more common. In 1995, it touched 30 million people worldwide. Today it is estimated that nearly 220 million the number of people affected and the predictions of the International Diabetes Federation is 438 million in 2030.

This metabolic disease is characterized by an abnormal concentration of permanent blood sugar linked to a resistance of body cells to insulin (a hormone secreted by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar) and pancreatic insufficiency.

It usually affects adults over 45 years including the obese or overweight. And that chronic hyperglycemia causes cardiovascular damage very important: achieving the small vessels of the eyes, and kidney disorders including sensitivity in the feet with risk of gangrene, and achievement of large arteries that supply blood to the lower extremities (risk amputation), heart and brain (stroke).

Where does the fact that the pancreas is no longer able to regulate blood sugar in the blood? Where does this global epidemic of diabetes?

For André Cicolella, President of Environment Health Network (RES) is clear “the responsibility of a number of chemicals called” diabetogenic “whose  Bisphenol A , is more increasingly highlighted. ”

Three studies corroborating

The results of three recent studies are indeed in this sense:

The study, published February 8, 1012 in the journal PLoS ONE (“rapid insulinotropic action of low doses of bisphenol A on islet cells of mice and humans: the role of estrogen receptor”) [1] and shows that impregnation at Bisphenol A corresponding to that of the general human population there is a release of insulin in man greater than that induced in mice. And this phenomenon contributes to type 2 diabetes. The study also demonstrates that the results in mice can be extrapolated to man and that man is more sensitive than mice to BPA.

A second study also published in February and conducted in China from 3390 adults aged 40 or older also found a significant association between impregnation Bisphenol A and obesity [2].

Finally, a study published in December led the U.S. population on the major program NHANES (National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey) from 2003 to 2008 showed that diabetics have a higher level of impregnation of bisphenol A [3]. The BPA-diabetes association was found among people of normal weight or overweight, independent of traditional risk factors for diabetes.

Adopt the law BPA

Bisphenol A is thus increasingly involved in the global diabetes epidemic, alongside the traditional factors such as nutrition and physical inactivity “says André Cicolella calling on the government” to adopt without delay the law and to BPA the issue of  endocrine disruptors (PE) in the heart of public health policies, these substances appear more than ever an essential key to act on the prevention of cancer, metabolic disorders (obesity, diabetes), reproductive disorders and neuro -behavioral “.

The planting season approaches, and still no concrete sign of the government along the lines of a new ban on GMO maize MON 810 …

By last weekend, the Ministry of Sustainable Development unveiled with pride the arrival in July 2012 a new label “GM free”. Unfortunately, the good news may be shortened, with the prospect of coexistence between  GM crops and non-GMO.

A draft order which endangers organic farming

Indeed, on January 20 Bruno Mayor submitted to the European Commission, a draft decree on the conditions for coexistence between these two types of cultures. While the department had received a few weeks before delegates from unions beekeepers and organic farmers to reassure them of its intention to maintain the ban on a variety of GM maize, he finds himself accused of “double game” by a group led by the Peasant Confederation. And for good reason: the coexistence advocated by the Minister of Agriculture may well sign the death warrant of this labeling, and organic agriculture. Indeed, for critics of GMOs, GMO seeds of a parcel may contaminate neighboring plots, for the pollination process but also the return trips of birds and even by wind. So what will become the culture of organic products? For several environmental organizations, such as France Nature Environment, Friends of the Earth or Greenpeace, if the government follows this recommendation, we can say goodbye to organic farming, and of course, labeling “no GMO” which must guarantee a product containing less than 0.1% of adventitious presence of GMOs (European legislation is less stringent with a threshold of 0.9%).

The coexistence of cultures in question

On 17 January, the High Council of biotechnology in turn believed that the coexistence of conventional crops with those that have been genetically modified is not incompatible, provided that are defined separation distances between fields. In countries where coexistence is tolerated as Spain and Portugal, farmers must work together locally to define the safety distance between a plot and a plot GMO conventional or organic.

The draft decree prepared by Bruno Le Maire provides him various “isolated conditions”, according to the varieties grown. For the cultivation of GM maize for example, it indicates that it must be “implemented with a distance of 50 m between each edge of the field of genetically modified maize and all sides of a parcel of non gmo interféconde culture”. Moreover, this “isolation distance may be replaced by the establishment, on each side of the plot concerned GMO corn, a border with a minimum width of 9 m consists of a variety of non-GMO corn from Class of precocity identical to that of the variety of GMO corn. ” But these precautions only laughs at critics of GMOs for which toxicity and transhumance GMOs are no longer any doubt. For Greenpeace, the Act defines “the rules of coexistence the most lax in Europe”. And emphasized that “in this text, not a line for the specific protection of beekeeping, not a single mention of organic farming” …

Promptly publish a new safeguard against MON 810

The Minister of Ecology has indicated it wants to react before the planting season – early March – but late enough for “the European Commission did not have time to question it.” “We will oppose the culture of my 810, so it is not worth buying seed My 810″, she said Monday, Jan. 23 farmers. To decide to publish it in the shortest possible time, the government should perhaps read the results of opinion polls which show that  French are largely opposed to GM crops in the territory.