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Study reveals shocking levels of cancer-linked pesticides in imported food – and the fruit that’s most affected

Analysts have raised the alarm about potentially harmful pesticides linked to cancer and infertility that are found in fruit like satsumas and oranges imported into Britain.

Campaign group Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) used Government testing data to show 46 pesticides with links to cancer had been detected on produce imports to Britain as of the end of last year.

This was more than double the 19 such pesticides found in British produce. 

Similar results were found for pesticides linked to fertility and damage to the nervous system, with twice and thrice as many such chemicals found on imports compared to British fare.

By food group, ‘soft citrus’ — which includes satsumas, tangerines and clementines — had the highest change of having a cocktail of multiple pesticides present, with 96 per cent of samples tested returning positive.

This was followed by oranges and lemons which had multiple pesticides detected in in 95 and 89 per cent of samples.

All three types of fruit contained as many as nine different pesticides — and all of these samples were imported from South Africa.  

For individual fruits, grapes from Lebanon that had the most pesticides of any item, with 13 substances detected on one sample analysed. 

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Widely used herbicide linked to persistent damaging effects on brain

A peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Neuroinflammation found that glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, may have persistent, damaging effects on brain health. Laboratory mice exposed to glyphosate exhibited significant brain inflammation, a condition tied to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. The symptoms persisted even months after the exposure ended.

The research team at Arizona State University (ASU) noted the study’s particular relevance to rural communities, where glyphosate is heavily used in farming. Lead researcher Ramon Velazquez, Ph.D., emphasized the importance of examining the effects of such a widely used chemical on brain health.

“This work is yet another step forward in understanding the impact of this widely used herbicide on the brain. But more research is needed to determine the impact that glyphosate has on the brain since most Americans are exposed to this herbicide on a daily basis.”
Ramon Velazquez, Ph.D., Arizona State University

The study revealed that even low doses—near the levels considered acceptable for human exposure—caused significant harm in the mice. Researchers observed premature death, neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer’s-like pathology in genetically predisposed mice. They also detected the accumulation of aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), a byproduct of glyphosate, in brain tissue, raising serious safety concerns about the chemical’s long-term effects on humans.

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Leading doctors sign HOPE Accord calling for the suspension of all covid mRNA “vaccines”

Thousands of doctors and healthcare professionals have signed a petition calling for the immediate suspension of all covid-19 mRNA products because they are contributing to an alarming rise in disability and in excess deaths. 

The online petition, known as the HOPE accord makes 5 calls for the international community concerning the covid mRNA vaccines that were given emergency use authorisation stating that “a growing body of evidence suggests that they are contributing to an alarming rise in disability and in excess deaths.”

The petition calls for “independent investigations to be properly resourced to allow a comprehensive re-evaluation of all covid-19 products. There must be a full exploration of mechanisms of harm to provide insight into their effect on the human body both short and long term.”

There are additional calls for immediate recognition and support for the vaccine injured. “The vaccine injured must be recognised and every effort be made to understand their conditions. Support should include readily accessible multidisciplinary clinics offering investigation and treatment as well as appropriate compensation for all those who have been harmed.” 

It also states, “The medical profession must lead by admitting we lost our way. By drawing attention to these medical and ethical issues surrounding the covid-19 response, we hope to validate and amplify the call to ensure the relevant facts and ensure vital lessons are learned. An honest and thorough investigation is needed, addressing the root cause that has led us to this place, including institutional groupthink, conflicts of interest and the suppression of scientific debate.” 

An open letter to the General Medical Council of the UK written by Consultant Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra and copies in several leaders in health also refer to the petition of which he is a co-founder.  They include the chief medical officer, Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief scientific adviser to the British government, Patrick Valance and the secretary of state for health, Wes Streeting. 

Dr. Malhotra says that given the level of evidence of unprecedented harm, their position to not suspend the covid mRNA products is now untenable. Re-analysis of Pfizer and Moderna’s original randomised controlled trials on the covid mRNA products by independent experts that included the associate editor of The BMJ revealed a greater risk of serious harm from the vaccine than being hospitalised with covid. This rate of serious harm is 1 in 800 at two months suggesting harms are likely much greater as it does not take into consideration medium to long-term harms that include heart attacks, strokes and cancer. Conversely, the level of benefit in the highest risk group, those over 90, according to UKHSA data for 2024 is 1 in 7,000 to prevent a covid hospitalisation. In other words, at least eight times greater risk of harm than benefit in this group.

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The Coming Sea Change at Trump’s FDA: Towards an Era of Safety and Public Transparency for Medical Devices

It has been over a decade since my late-wife, Dr. Amy Josephine Reed, was harmed and killed by a poorly regulated medical device, known as the Power Morcellator. The sheer force of Dr. Reed’s voice, as a Harvard Medical School faculty member and a physician-scientist — and the injustice it uncovered to countless other women like her — became a bellwether case that demonstrates an ongoing and severe safety failure operational in the medical device regulatory space at FDA.

Of course, this safety failure in the FDA’s medical device regulatory arm, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), is hardly unique to that center. Industry and conflicted academic “experts,” not patients, play an outsized role in governing and corrupting almost all of the FDA’s centers. But, certainly, the source of the safety failure at CDRH is crystallized in the dangerous regulatory regime that the agency center utilizes to clear the vast majority of medical devices for the US healthcare marketplace: The 510(k).

At a legislative level, CDRH’s 510(k) regulatory regime was not designed to ensure the safety or efficacy of the medical devices it regulates — a fact that is well known to most public health experts and FDA regulators themselves. CDRH’s 510(k) does not use anything even remotely resembling an “evidence-based” framework to provide clearance to thousands of new medical devices annually used in the care of patients across the US and abroad.

Even more problematic is that the medical device industry pays the FDA for the 510(k) clearances obtained. In other words, almost the entire 510(k) clearance apparatus at CDRH is literally funded by the medical device industry — the very industry that stands to gain the most from the 510(k) clearances it funds. This is a serious conflict of interest in the healthcare space, and should not pass ethical muster — even when the argument is that such payments from industry to government are saving taxpayer dollars. The moment the industry starts paying to keep the FDA’s centers’ lights on is when the industry, not the people, will have an outsized voice in governing the agency that is regulating it.

Worse yet, the CDRH personnel whose 510(k)-related activities are funded by medical device makers exert virtually no real scrutiny over the manufacturer’s claims in their 510(k) applications for market clearance — either because their “reviews” are deliberately superficial and nominal, or because they are grossly incompetent from an expert perspective. It is literally true that the overwhelming majority of medical devices that seek 510(k) clearance for use in the US marketplace are granted them, without difficulty and at mach speed, by any reasonable standard — and although these devices are literally directly engaging the most vulnerable of America’s citizens: patients who trust American healthcare at their most vulnerable!

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FDA May Move To Ban Red Dye 3 from Food

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may move to ban artificial dye Red 3, otherwise known as erythrosine, from foods within the next few weeks.

Jim Jones, deputy commissioner for human foods at the agency, told a Senate meeting that the FDA is in the process of deciding a ban, in response to a petition.

“With Red 3, we have a petition in front of us to revoke the authorization board, and we’re hopeful that in the next few weeks we’ll be acting on that petition,” Jones said.

Red 3 is a colouring derived from petroleum that is widely used in foods and drinks, although it has been banned in cosmetics since 1990 after studies suggested it caused cancer in lab animals.

“There is simply no reason for this chemical to be in our food except to entice and mislead consumers by changing the color of their food so it looks more appealing,” said Rep. Frank Pallone in a statement, in response to the news.

“With the holiday season in full swing where sweet treats are abundant, it is frightening that this chemical remains hidden in these foods that we and our children are eating.”

Red 3 has been a target of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been nominated as the next head of Health and Human Services by president-elect Trump.

Kennedy has vowed to clean up the food supply, the reform the system of food-additive regulation and ensure independence between regulators and industry.

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‘Unconscionable’: EPA to Only Partially Ban Pesticide Known to Harm Developing Babies

The long and winding regulatory road for a pesticide known to be harmful to developing babies took another turn on Monday as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was planning to only partially ban the insecticide chlorpyrifos in farming.

Under pressure from powerful agricultural industry interests and ordered by a federal court to consider the factors raised by the farming groups in a legal petition, the EPA said it would continue to allow chlorpyrifos to be used by farmers growing 11 crops, including apples, asparagus, citrus, peaches, strawberries, wheat, soybeans and others, despite evidence that the pesticide is associated with “neurodevelopmental effects” that can impair the normal development of children.

Other uses in farming would be banned, the agency said.

In the most recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pesticide Residue Monitoring Report, chlorpyrifos was the 11th most frequently found pesticide in human food samples out of 209 different pesticides detected by FDA testing.

“EPA continues to prioritize the health of children,” Michal Freedhoff, assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, said in a statement.

“This proposed rule is a critical step forward as we work to reduce chlorpyrifos in or on food and to better protect people, including infants and children, from exposure to chemicals that are harmful to human health.”

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GMO Corn, Glyphosate Pose Unacceptable Health Risks, New Scientific Analysis Shows

A new scientific analysis prepared by CONAHCYT, Mexico’s National Council for Humanities, Science and Technology, argues there are unacceptable health risks for Mexican people who consume genetically modified (GM) corn and glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide.

The 200-page document with 1,200 references — posted here for the first time in English — underpins Mexico’s 2023 decree to restrict the use of GM corn in tortillas and other minimally processed corn products, and to phase out the use of glyphosate.

The U.S. challenged those policies as unfair trade practices under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). A decision in that case is expected imminently.

Whatever the ruling, Mexico’s new President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has said her government will not allow the cultivation of GM corn.

Sheinbaum Pardo also recently announced plans to try to place GM corn restrictions in Mexico’s Constitution; “This is the best defense we have for biodiversity as well as for our health,” she said.

Mexico’s stand for food sovereignty and the scientific evidence they gathered to support their case have worldwide relevance, as nations across the Global South grapple with seed laws that would open the doors to GM foods.

It also comes at a time when U.S. consumers are losing faith in the safety of our food supply, according to a recent Gallup poll.

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Arla’s Bovaer food additive is not food, it is a drug

The UK Food Standards Agency is insisting Bovaer is “safe.”  A spokesman told MailOnline: “Milk from cows given Bovaer, a feed additive used to reduce methane emissions, is safe to drink.”

On Monday, The Standard said,  “On 26 November, Arla announced a new project that it hopes will cut the UK’s methane emissions.  Methane is a greenhouse gas and contributes to climate change … The initiative is part of Arla’s wider commitment to reduce the environmental impact of its dairy production. The organisation is aiming to reduce its CO2 emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.”

Using the excuse “to reduce methane emissions” and “CO2 emissions” and then tying it to Agenda 2030’s deadline of 2030, should raise an immediate red flag to anyone who has done even a little research in the last few years. 

There is no anthropogenic climate change crisis, and, as we mentioned in our article last week, methane is an important part of the biogenic carbon cycle.  As we all know from primary school lessons, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the elixir of life, supporting plants since the world began and making virtually all life on Earth possible.

The whole false anthropogenic climate change narrative should have disintegrated in 2009 when the Climategate emails were released.  But such is the determination, and money, of those who want to keep the UN’s agenda alive.

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11 Countries Demand Immediate Suspension of COVID-19 Modified mRNA Vaccines

On Monday, Ireland joined an international group of hundreds of politicians, medical experts, and other professionals who wrote to the heads of state of 10 other European countries “calling for a suspension of modified mRNA vaccines citing serious health concerns,” according to a press release from NORTH Group.

“Ireland joined this initiative today, with support from experts including Professor Francis Boyle, author of the U.S. ‘Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorist Act of 1989,’” the announcement reads.

NORTH Group’s letter of concern is “co-signed by physicians, scientists, politicians, and other qualified professionals” from around the world.

The countries listed now include: Ireland, Greenland, Iceland, the U.K., Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

The missive calls for the “immediate suspension of COVID-19 modified mRNA vaccines and an investigation into the presence of excessive levels of residual DNA in multiple vials, which is a serious, unquantified risk to human health,” according to a summary document.

“As an international group of politicians and qualified professionals, we are gravely concerned about the effects of COVID-19 modified mRNA vaccines on our populations and call for their immediate suspension,” the letter reads.

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BioNTech RNA-Based COVID-19 Injections Contain Large Amounts Of Residual DNA Including An SV40 Promoter/Enhancer Sequence

Background: BNT162b2 RNA-based COVID-19 injections are specified to transfect human cells to efficiently produce spike proteins for an immune response.

Methods: We analyzed four German BNT162b2 lots applying HEK293 cell culture, immunohistochemistry, ELISA, PCR, and mass spectrometry.

Results: We demonstrate successful transfection of nucleoside-modified mRNA (modRNA) biologicals into HEK293 cells and show robust levels of spike proteins over several days of cell culture. Secretion into cell supernatants occurred predominantly via extracellular vesicles enriched for exosome markers. We further analyzed RNA and DNA contents of these vials and identified large amounts of DNA after RNase A digestion in all lots with concentrations ranging from 32.7 ng to 43.4 ng per clinical dose. This far exceeds the maximal acceptable concentration of 10 ng per clinical dose that has been set by international regulatory authorities. Gene analyses with selected PCR primer pairs proved that residual DNA represents not only fragments of the DNA matrices coding for the spike gene, but of all genes from the plasmid including the SV40 promoter/enhancer and the antibiotic resistance gene.

Conclusion: Our results raise grave concerns regarding the safety of the BNT162b2 vaccine and call for an immediate halt of all RNA biologicals unless these concerns can be dispelled.

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