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Stop Monsanto´s GM soybeans - Write to EU Commissioner
Stop the toxic soybeans! Support our call!
Testbiotech, 23 July 2015
Testbiotech is warning that EU market authorisation might be given to a new genetically engineered soybean produced by Monsanto. Soybean MON 87708 × MON 89788 was made resistant to two pesticides, glyphosate and dicamba. Spraying soybean crops with these herbicides leaves residues in the plants which might be carcinogenic. Glyphosate was recently classified as “probably carcinogenic” by an international expert group. Dicamba degrades to compounds such as formaldehyde, which has already been classified as carcinogenic for several years. It follows that the harvested soybeans will regularly contain a combination of residues from these herbicides. If they are imported, the food and feed chain could be permanently exposed to this specific mixture.
This is the first time that this combination of herbicides will be used to spray soybeans.
- Testbiotech: Stop the toxic soybeans! Support our call!
- Testbiotech: Testbiotech comment : herbicide-tolerant genetically modified soybean MON 87708 × MON 89788 for food and feed uses, import and processing from Monsanto
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- GeneWatch UK comments on the opinion of the EFSA Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms on an application for the authorisation of GM soybean MON 87708 x MON 89788 for food and feed uses submitted under Regulation (EC) No. 1829/2003 by Mo
- Centre for Biosafety – GenØk: Assessment of the technical dossier submitted under EFSA/GMO/NL/2012/108 for approval of transgenic soy, MON 87708 x MON 89788, Monsanto Company