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Sara-Chicago

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  1. It is important to look at how Europe is handling this.  Their approach is extremely different.  To use an example in another area of "health," in Europe, there are about 10,000 chemicals considered to be dangerous to human health, and which are therefore outlawed for use in personal care products.  In the U.S., it is 9.  (yes, 10,000 versus 9  !!)  (Among the 10,000 chemicals not allowed in Europe but allowed in the U.S.: mercury, lead, Parabens, Phenylenediamine, Formaldehyde and its releasers, Phthalates, PEG, Triclosan & Triclocarban). 

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    (Why personal care products? Because absorption through the skin to the bloodstream is a highly effective form of absorption – this is the principle behind nicotine patches and other patches Open Original Shared Link ).  Substances applied to the skin make their way into the bloodstream and then to every cell in the body.) 

    I mention this to show you the barometer of how permissive the U.S. for substances which are proven to be highly toxic to the human body. 

    In Europe they are looking to prove the following:

    “A number of research centres in Italy are analysing whether there is a cause-and-effect link between genetically modified wheat and celiac disease stemming from the altered amino acid sequence found in the gliadin of GMO wheat.”

    In view of the above, can the Commission say whether it intends to:

    explore the link between genetically modified wheat and celiac disease, as posited by a group of Italian doctors?”

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  2. It is an absolute lie that wheat has not been genetically modified.  "Splicing" - how do you define splicing, exactly? Do people think that splicing is done with a knife? No! the genome is too small! it is done with chemicals.

     

    How was the genetic modification done? Here is an excerpt from another site:

     

    Modern wheat has been hybridized (crossing different strains to generate new characteristics; 5% of proteins generated in the offspring, for instance, are not present in either parent), backcrossed (repeated crossing to winnow out a specific trait, e.g., short stature), and hybridized with non-wheat plants (to introduce entirely unique genes). There are also chemical-, gamma-, and x-ray mutagenesis, i.e., the use of obnoxious stimuli to induce mutations that can then be propagated in offpspring. This is how BASF’s Clearfield wheat was created, for example, by exposing the seeds and embryos to the industrial chemical, sodium azide, that is highly toxic to humans.

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