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100,000 Pages of Chemical Industry Secrets Gathered Dust in an Oregon Barn for Decades — Until Now
The Poison Papers, a joint project of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has been written up in The Intercept.
“100,000 Pages of Chemical Industry Secrets Gathered Dust in an Oregon Barn for Decades — Until Now” by Sharon Lerner was published yesterday, to coincide with the launch of The Poison Papers.
Excerpt:
“For decades, some of the dirtiest, darkest secrets of the chemical industry have been kept in Carol Van Strum’s barn. Creaky, damp, and prowled by the occasional black bear, the listing, 80-year-old structure in rural Oregon housed more than 100,000 pages of documents obtained through legal discovery in lawsuits against Dow, Monsanto, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the Air Force, and pulp and paper companies, among others.
As of today, those documents and others that have been collected by environmental activists will be publicly available through a project called the Poison Papers. Together, the library contains more than 200,000 pages of information and “lays out a 40-year history of deceit and collusion involving the chemical industry and the regulatory agencies that were supposed to be protecting human health and the environment,” said Peter von Stackelberg, a journalist who along with the Center for Media and Democracy and the Bioscience Resource Project helped put the collection online.”
Read the full article at The Intercept at: https://theintercept.com/2017/07/26/chemical-industry-herbicide-poison-papers/
Read more about the project and access the documents at: https://www.poisonpapers.org/
The Poison Papers Expose Decades of Collusion between Industry and Regulators over Hazardous Pesticides and Other Chemicals
The Bioscience Resource Project and the Center for Media and Democracy today are releasing a trove of rediscovered and newly digitized chemical industry and regulatory agency documents stretching back to the 1920s. The documents are available at PoisonPapers.org.
Together, the papers show that both industry and regulators understood the extraordinary toxicity of many chemical products and worked together to conceal this information from the public and the press. These papers will transform our understanding of the hazards posed by certain chemicals on the market and the fraudulence of some of the regulatory processes relied upon to protect human health and the environment.
“These documents represent a tremendous trove of previously hidden or lost evidence on chemical regulatory activity and chemical safety. What is most striking about these documents is their heavy focus on the activities of regulators. Time and time again regulators went to the extreme lengths of setting up secret committees, deceiving the media and the public, and covering up evidence of human exposure and human harm. These secret activities extended and increased human exposure to chemicals they knew to be toxic,” said Dr. Jonathan Latham, Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project. read more…
The Biotech Industry Is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs from the Inside
Published today (Wednesday, July 19, 2017) in Independent Science News, “The Biotech Industry Is Taking Over the Regulation of GMOs from the Inside” was written by Jonathan Latham, PhD.
Synopsis: The corporate takeover of the International Society for Biosafety Research (ISBR) and its biennial ISBGMO conference is a case study in the methods and the goals of the biotech industry. This year’s key industry talking points were “harmonization” and “data transportability”, “need to know vs nice to know,” “trait-based risk assessment,” and “tiered risk assessment.” Regulatory acceptance of these anti-scientific concepts would spell the end of biosafety regulation.
Read the full story at: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/the-biotech-industry-is-taking-over-the-regulation-of-gmos/
Illegal GE Bacteria Detected in An Animal Feed Supplement by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD
Published today (Monday, 26th June) by Independent Science News, “Illegal GE Bacteria Detected in An Animal Feed Supplement,” written by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD
Synopsis: Genetically engineered (GE) bacteria have been found in riboflavin vitamin supplements intended for animal feed use, according to newly published EU tests. Contamination of any supplements with GE bacteria is illegal in the European Union. Through culturing and DNA sequencing, EU biosafety agencies were able to show that this illegal GE strain was itself a deliberate or inadvertent contaminant since it did not correspond to any strains that the manufacturer claimed to be using.
The findings, just published in the journal Food Chemistry, were made by regulators from Germany and Italy who were sampling Chinese imports.
Read the full news story at: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/illegal-ge-bacteria-detected-in-animal-supplement/
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New webpage resource “Biotechnology for Biofuels” from Biofuelwatch
Biofuelwatch has launched a new webpage resource “Biotechnology for Biofuels”. This page compiles their analyses of the biotechnology push to genetically engineer crops, trees, and microbes for biofuels and the bioeconomy. “Biotechnology for Biofuels” includes in-depth investigations of three biofuel companies – Algenol, Mascoma, and Solazyme/TerraVia, and will be updated with forthcoming reports on algal and ligno-cellulosic biofuels, followed by further materials.
The new webpage can be accessed here: http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/campaigns/biotech-for-biofuels/
Also see Independent Science News articles on the subject of biofuels:
Cashing in on Cellulosic Ethanol: Subsidy Loophole Set to Rescue Corn Biofuel Profits (2016) by Almuth Ernsting
Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels (2016) by Almuth Ernsting
The Real Burning Question: Are Liquid Fuels the best use of Non-Woody Biomass? (2009) by David Malakoff
Exotic and Endemic Plants and Animals of Nepal by Ann Mayer
Exotic and Endemic Plants and Animals of Nepal is a new e-book of poems for children by Ann Mayer, with beautiful color artwork by children from the Nepal Orphans Home. You can download it here: Exotic and Endemic Plants and Animals of Nepal.
In 2016, Ann, a former Bioscience Resource Project Editor, published her first e-book: Endangered Animals of Nepal – Poems by Ann Mayer (with colorful animal illustrations by youth members of the A-Team for Wildlife). To download and learn more about Endangered Animals of Nepal, please go to: https://bioscienceresource.org/endangered-animals-of-nepal-poems-by-ann-m-mayer/
Both e-books may be downloaded, printed and shared for free and Ann Mayer can be contacted using this form https://bioscienceresource.org/contact-us/
Please put Ann Mayer e-book as the subject of your email.
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