(NaturalNews) The same university academic whose controversial research
exposed the cancer-causing effects of genetically modified (GM) Bt corn
and the Monsanto crop herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) has made another
groundbreaking discovery, this time with regard to the understated
toxicity of pesticides in general.
Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini
and his team from Caen University in France recently found that the
vast majority of pesticides sold on the commercial market are far more
toxic than we have all been led to believe. As it turns out, all those
"inert" ingredients make these assumed-to-be-harmless formulas hundreds,
or even thousands, of times more toxic than their approved active
ingredients.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal BioMed Research International
(BRI), Prof. Seralini's game-changing study looked at nine major
pesticides currently available to farmers. Eight of these nine
pesticides, or nearly 90 percent, according to the data, were determined
to be significantly more toxic than what government regulators have
assumed based on assessments of just their active ingredients.
Like
vaccines, virtually all pesticide formulas contain so-called "inert,"
or inactive, ingredients that act as adjuvants in boosting the overall
efficacy of their primary active ingredients. In practice, these
extraneous ingredients have automatically been assumed to be safe, or at
least mostly safe, which is why regulators typically avoid testing them
as part of the approval process.
But in nearly every instance, tested pesticide
formulas were identified as being orders of magnitude more toxic than
just their active ingredients because of all the added "inert"
ingredients, something that regulators have routinely failed to
consider. And in at least one case, a pesticide formula was found to be
1,000 times more toxic than its active ingredient in isolation.
"[Pesticides]
contain adjuvants, which are often kept confidential and are called
inerts by the manufacturing companies, plus a declared active principle
(AP), which is usually tested alone," reads the study's abstract. "Most
importantly, 8 formulations out of 9 were several hundred times more
toxic than their active principle."
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