-Cavet Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> -Cui Bono- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James DeMeo Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 8:15 AM To: *OBRL_News Subject: OBRL - Wilms tumors / Milk / rBGH From: OBRL-News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:- Wilms tumors / Milk / rBGH Orgone Biophysical Research Lab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.orgonelab.org Forwarded News Item Please copy and distribute to other interested individuals and groups ********** From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wellnow.com Subject: Wilms tumors / Milk / rBGH News from Robert Cohen, who's on a hunger strike to publicize and urge removal of rBGH from the dairy business and its effects from the milk supply. In the past few days we've heard from someone, about a 1-1/2-year old girl who had to have a kidney removed due to a Wilms tumor. We contacted Robert about this, and he promptly replied with a citation to a study, several years old, showing high levels of IGF-1, a hormone that is elevated in milk from rBGH-treated cows, in Wilms tumors. More below. +++++ Following our recent mail-out of Robert Cohen's testimony before Congress, concerning Monsanto's recombinant (genetically modified) Bovine Growth Hormone and its effects on the nation's milk supply, we received this from a correspondent: >-I have a friend whose year and a half old daughter that had to >-have a kidney removed this summer ' 99. She had a Wilms tumor. >-They told me that the incidence of the tumors is increasing. They >-also were told it was a genetic factor that she got the tumor. >-During my visits to the hospital the mother stated that it was hard >-to get her daughter to drink water as a clear liquid because she had >-never had water before. She had only had milk her entire life. Robert Cohen replies: Milk from the healthiest cows contains the bovine growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I). Yun demonstrated that IGF hormones were 32-64 times more abundant in Wilms tumors than in the adjacent uninvolved kidneys. (K. Yun, et al. "Insulin-like growth factor II messenger ribonucleic acid expression in Wilms tumor, nephrogenic rest, and kidney." Department of Pathology, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand. Lab-Invest., November, 1993, 69(5), pp. 603-615.) IGF-1, says Cohen, is the only known cross-species hormone, one that is identical in cows and in humans. It is always present in dairy products, but is -more- present (elevated) in milk from rBGH-treated cows. More from Robert Cohen at: http://www.notmilk.com http://www.hungerstrike.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to arrange interviews, appearances: 1-888-NOT-MILK (Ann or Lisa) +++++ >Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 11:36:27 -0500 SUBSTANTIAL DIVERGENCE On this 50th day of my hunger strike, I have learned a new secret, and I am very greatly concerned. While anti-biotech protestors were rioting in the streets of Seattle, a new episode in the continuing saga of Monsanto's revolving door tactics quietly developed beyond FDA's "palace" doors. Somebody may be breaking the law, participating in unethical activity at the least, insider trading and influence, betrayal of our health interests, and the time has come for us to ask: "What's up?" The same grandiloquent question that Bugs Bunny asks Elmer Fudd can fittingly be asked of our scientists and government regulators: "What's up, Doc?" Appropriately, that question should also be directed to the president of Monsanto, Robert Shapiro. "What's up, Bob?" Actually, as we get closer to asking this very same question to the guiltiest of conspirators, we have discovered a source of future ills in the nick of time. Knowing the proper question to ask might very well nip the problem deep within the pollen of its genetically engineered bud. THE REAL ENEMY Today, on this first day after Christmas, let us ask together, "What's up, John." You might be wondering just who this John fellow is. Actually, it's UPJOHN. You might ask, "What's up, John?" Well, I'm gonna tell you. Activists of the world, unite. We have met the enemy. (UPJOHN is not where I want you to stick your proverbial placards and banners of protest. Not yet, anyway.) When Monsanto first presented their research to the FDA for approval of the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH), there were also three other pharmaceutical companies with their own different versions of the genetically modified organism. Monsanto's protein formula was different than the naturally occurring bovine growth hormone. Monsanto's hormone was not an exact version of the natural pituitary extract from a cow. The end amino acid (amino acids are the building blocks of proteins) was just a little bit different than what naturally occurs in nature. Actually, it was VERY different, but Monsanto neglected to reveal all of their secrets until after their drug received official FDA approval. THE MAGICIANS PERFORMED THEIR SLEIGHT-OF-HAND TRICK Monsanto received approval for rbGH on Friday, February 4, 1994. There must have been quite a celebration in their St. Louis corporate headquarters on that day. Perhaps the celebration continued through the weekend. What happened the following Monday provides the "smoking gun" evidence to Monsanto's crime. On Monday, a group of Monsanto scientists photocopied, collated and stapled together the most incriminating scientific document in history and sent it to a peer-review journal for publication. On Thursday of that week, the journal "PROTEIN SCIENCE" officially received Monsanto's study. In that paper, Monsanto admitted that they made significant errors in their formula. WHAT'S UP, JOHN? What's up, doc? Monsanto waited until after approval, just in case, to admit their errors. After approval, Monsanto admitted that the errors were fixed. However, in making this no-win admission, Monsanto also revealed that all of the research submitted to FDA from 1985 until 1993 was performed with a different hormone than the one that is currently on the market. Funny creatures, these scientists. Most of the authors of the study worked for Monsanto. Most, but not all. A few researchers were with other firms. One researcher, located after three phone calls told me that he worked for Monsanto nearly two years before the hormone was approved. Then he made a number of career moves, but still received credit for his work in co-authorship. What does this prove? Simply, that Monsanto knew the errors were made, but held off until after approval. By leaving the firm, the co-author placed a time stamp upon when the "crime" was actually known, and when it was committed. Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (trade name = POSILAC) has never been tested on a laboratory animal. Nor as it been tested on a cow. Before approval, the FDA required Monsanto to perform hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new research. Equivalent in 1989 did not mean that a perfect match existed. The other three pharmaceutical companies elected not to continue with their research. Eli Lilly had created a bovine growth hormone with seven additional amino acids. American Cyanamid created a version with three new amino acids. Now to the theme of this column. UPJOHN's version was an exact duplicate of what naturally occurs in nature. Exact by 1990 standards, that is. The reason that this holds so much significance is that MONSANTO and UPJOHN will soon be merging into one very large company. Criminal co-conspirators will be committing a crime together, and then they'll change their name and identity. Will you even recognize the crime? You most certainly will by reading the rest of this column! UPJOHN's version of the bovine growth hormone was "supposedly" identical to the hormone naturally manufactured in a cow's brain. UPJOHN has recently applied to FDA for approval of their hormone, based upon the theory of "substantial equivalence." I learned about UPJOHN'S application early Thursday morning. Their application is so secret that FDA will not even confirm that it has been made. On that Thursday before Christmas, I requested the file number from an employee at the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), FDA's investigative branch. She put me on hold and spoke to the director, Stephen Sundlof. After a minute, she came back and apologized. "We cannot reveal the file number until the drug is approved." I was stunned by their secrecy. By that time, it will be too late. After that phone conversation, I filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the case file. Will I be denied? Time will tell. UPJOHN'S application and FDA's review is based upon substantial fraud, not substantial equivalence. Genetic engineering is not a perfect science. When cow hormones are combined with E. coli bacteria, one of the resulting amino acids often becomes a freak. That amino acid, LYSINE, has an acetyl group added to it. Chemists call this process "acetylization." Suffice it to say that this is a big errorone small error for Monsanto and UPJOHN, one giant OOPS for mankind. Monsanto created five freak amino acids. UPJOHN most certainly did the same. In 1990, FDA reviewers did not have the sophisticated tests necessary to detect such errors. New technology provides those tests today. Rubber stamping UPJOHN's application because of substantial equivalence cannot be allowed to occur. There is no substantial equivalence when mistakes occur. Monsanto should repeat their research. UPJOHN did not receive approval in 1990, and chose not to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to gain approval. They should not be given a free pass today. We cannot, must not, will not let FDA apply their doctrine of substantial equivalence to UPJOHN. We have discovered Monsanto's plan, and are not happy that these two schemers long ago applied to FDA for approval, while discussing merger talks. Their intent is clear. Deceive, divide, and conquer. There has got to be a law! 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