Review of Roundup Herbicide Health Effects as reported by Antoniou et al., (2011)
Below is a list of the potential health disorders that have been observed from exposure to the herbicide glyphosate as documented by the report Roundup and birth defects Is the public being kept in the dark? by Antoniou et al., 2011. Below, each potential health disorder is presented separately, along with “quotes” extracted from their report and with the respective citations of refereed publications provided by the authors.
Index to Summary
1.0. Summary assessment, pg. 2
2.0. Birth defects, pg. 3
3.0. Birth-defects, mechanism of action, pg. 4
4.0. Birth defects: Epidemiological evidence, pg. 5
5.0. Embryonic deaths, death of fetus, pg. 7
6.0. Embryonic deaths, death of fetus, pg. 8
7.0. Lung, kidney, heart, and skeletal malformations, pg. 9
8.0. Skeletal malformations, pg 10
9.0. Teratogenic effects: skeletal malformations; craniofacial and mouth deformities, eye abnormalities and bent,
curved tails in tadpoles, pg. 11
10.0 Endocrine Disruption: Powerful endocrine disruptor and reproductive abnormalities, pg. 12
11.0 Endocrine Disruption, Reproductive, developmental, and endocrine disruption effects, pg. 13
12.0 Endocrine disruption, pg. 15
13.0 Irreversible damage to liver cells, pg. 16
14.0 Human cell death, pg. 16
15.0 DNA damage: Roundup causes genotoxic (DNA damage) effects, pg. 17
16.0. Cancer: Roundup carcinogenic effects, pg. 20
17.0. Cancer: Observed salivary gland lesions, carcinogenic?, pg. 22
18.0. Nervous system: Roundup causes neurotoxic effects, pg. 22
19.0 Conflict of interest: industry bias on safety studies conducted by their own scientists, pg. 24
20.0. Conflict of interest: Monsanto, and bias in their response to health safety studies showing
potential negative health effects from roundup, pg. 25
21.0 NY Courts: Monsanto can’t make safety claims about Roundup, pg. 26
22.0. Inert ingredients (adjuvants) increase toxicity of Roundup, pg. 27
23.0. Roundup remains biologically active in the soil, pg. 27
Read the entire text of the Summary: http://responsibletechnology.org/docs/RoundupHealth2011.pdf
Read the complete Report by Antoniou et al., 2011 at Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/57277946/RoundupandBirthDefectsv5
