1 Open letter to the CMO (England), the Wellcome Trust and Public Health England Why are your departments promoting corporations at the expense of public health and the environment? Is it to please the British Government or the Corporations? The first part of this document is background information, the Open Letter starts on page 12 Background information A NEW PAPE‘ ‘EVEAL“ MON“ANTO“ “EC‘ET “TUDIE“: MONSANTO KNEW THAT GLYPHOSATE CAUSED CANCER IN ANIMALS BUT MANIPULATED THE DATA 1 Monsanto has known since the 1970s that glyphosate causes cancer, according to a new paper by researchers Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff. Samsel is the first independent researcher to examine MoŶsaŶtos seĐƌet todžiĐologLJ studies oŶ glLJphosate. He oďtained the studies through a request to his senator. With Dƌ “tephaŶie “eŶeff of MIT, he ƌeǀieǁed MoŶsaŶtos data. Samsel and Seneff concluded that: sigŶifiĐaŶt eǀideŶĐe of tuŵouƌs ǁas fouŶd duƌiŶg these iŶǀestigatioŶs. Extract: Glyphosate has a large number of tumorigenic effects on biological systems, including direct damage to DNA in sensitive cells, disruption of glycine homeostasis, succinate dehydrogenase inhibition, chelation of manganese, modification to more carcinogenic molecules such as N- nitrosoglyphosate and glyoxylate, disruption of fructose metabolism, etc. Epidemiological evidence supports strong temporal correlations between glyphosate usage on crops and a multitude of cancers that are reaching epidemic proportions, including breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer, thyroid cancer, liver cancer, bladder cancer and myeloid leukaemia. Meŵďeƌs of U“ EPAs TodžiĐologLJ BƌaŶĐh of the Hazaƌd EǀaluatioŶ DiǀisioŶ Coŵŵittee, i n a consensus review on March 4 1985, had classified glyphosate as a Group C carcinogen, based on the incidence in rats/mice of renal tumours, thyroid C-cell adenomas and carcinomas, pancreatic islet cell adenomas, hepatocellular adenomas and carcinomas in males, but on June 26 1991 the Health Effects Division Carcinogenicity Peer Review Committee met to discuss and evaluate the weight of evidence on glyphosate with particular emphasis to its carcinogenic potential. In a review of the data the Committee concluded that glyphosate should be classified as Group E (evidence of non- carcinogenicity for humans). However, three of the Committee refused to sign and wrote: DO NOT CONCUR. In 2012 Séralini and his colleagues performed a 2-year rat feeding study on GMO Maize and Roundup® and found liver and kidney damage and similar tumours, but the Science Media Centre accused SéƌaliŶis teaŵ of fƌaud and said the paper should be withdrawn. THE WELLCOME TRUST HOSTS THE SCIENCE MEDIA CENTRE ---SPONSORED BY CORPORATIONS WHO“E EXPE‘T“ DENIED THAT ROUNDUP® AND GMOS CAUSED TUMOURS The SMC sponsors include AstraZeneca, BP, Coca-Cola, L'Oreal, Monsanto, Syngenta and Nature Publishing Group. The Centre provides a rapid expert opinion for journalists. But the Director admits that it was set up in the wake of Dr Árpád Pusztai publishing his paper which showed that rats fed on GM potatoes had stunted growth and a repressed immune system. The edžpeƌts aƌe proponents of GMOs often having major conflicts of interest. The SMC allows corporations to influence what journalists write and hence control the information given to the British public. THE COMMERCIAL INTERESTS OF PRODUCT DEVELOPERS WHO CONDUCT THEIR OWN SAFETY ASSESSMENTS AND RETRACT PAPERS THAT REPORT INCONVENIENT RESULTS The Séralini affair: degeneration of Science to Re-Science? 2 This recent paper from Fagan, Traavik and Bøhn, highlights the whole shameful affair of conflicts of interest and how science has been misused. The ĐoŶfliĐts of iŶteƌest iŶheƌeŶt iŶ alloǁiŶg pƌoduĐt developers to conduct the safety assessment research that serves as the basis for regulatory approval 1 https://www.academia.edu/17751562/Glyphosate_pathways_to_modern_diseases_IV_cancer_and_related_pathologies 2 http://www.enveurope.com/content/27/1/19