米カリフォルニア州在住で末期がんと診断されている男性が、がんになったのは農薬大手モンサント(Monsanto)の除草剤「ラウンドアップ(Roundup)」のせいだと同社を提訴した裁判で10日、陪審はモンサントに約2億9000万ドル(約320億円)を支払うよう命じた。(除草剤で末期がんに、米裁判所 モンサントに約320億円の支払い命じる JIJI.COM/AFP/YAHOO!JAPANニュース 2018/8/11(土) 13:01配信)
評決の様子
Watch Live: Verdict reached in Dewayne Johnson vs Monsanto (23 ABC News | KERO)
モンサント社の除草剤ラウンドアップの主成分グリホサートの毒性に関して
GMO Advocate Says Monsanto’s Roundup Safe to Drink, Then Refuses Glass
モンサントの見解を支援する科学者のひとり、パトリック・ムーア博士は「ラウンドアップを1リットル飲んでも害はない」と主張している。… インタビュアーはムーア博士に対し、グリホサートの入ったグラスを裏に用意してあるので、カメラの前で飲んでみてくださいと持ちかけた。しかし、ムーア博士はそれを拒み、このインタビューはゴールデンライスに関するものだったはずだ、と怒って退席した (科学者「モンサントの除草剤は飲んでも安全」じゃ、飲んでみて? と言ったら…… Nick VisserThe Huffington Post HUFFPOST 2015年03月30日 15時14分 JST)
Poisoned Fields – Glyphosate, the underrated risk? (HD 1080p)(52:15)
参考(論文)
- Facts and Fallacies in the Debate on Glyphosate Toxicity. Front Public Health. 2017; 5: 316. Published online 2017 Nov 24.
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of glyphosate exposure and risk of lymphohematopoietic cancers. J Environ Sci Health B. 2016 Jun 2; 51(6): 402–434. Published online 2016 Mar 25. doi: 10.1080/03601234.2016.1142748
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and occupational exposure to agricultural pesticide chemical groups and active ingredients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2014 Apr 23;11(4):4449-527.
- Integrative assessment of multiple pesticides as risk factors for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma among men. Occup Environ Med. 2003 Sep;60(9):E11.
参考(グリホサートの毒性に関する報道など)
- 悪性リンパ腫(あくせいりんぱしゅ)とは(国立がんセンター がん情報サービス)悪性リンパ腫はがん細胞の形態や性質によって70種類以上に細かく分類されていますが、大きくはホジキンリンパ腫と非ホジキンリンパ腫の2つに分類されます(図2)。
- School Groundskeeper Dying Of Cancer Suing Monsanto Over Roundup CBS Sacramento YOUTUBE 2018/07/09 に公開
- 除草剤ラウンドアップの発がん性めぐる裁判、7月9日に初公判 米 (AFP BB NEWS 2018年6月29日 9:01 発信地:サンフランシスコ/米国) 米カリフォルニア州在住で末期がんと診断されている男性が、がんになったのは農薬大手モンサント(Monsanto)の除草剤「ラウンドアップ(Roundup)」のせいだとして同社を提訴した裁判の初公判が7月9日に行われることになった。… 原告のドウェイン・ジョンソン(Dewayne Johnson)さん(46)によれば、ジョンソンさんはサンフランシスコ近郊の学区の校庭管理を担当。2012年から2年間にわたってラウンドアップを使用し、それが原因でがんを発症したと主張している。
- Decision-making in a storm of discontent (Science 01 Jun 2018:Vol. 360, Issue 6392, pp. 958-960) On 12 December 2017, the European Commission reapproved the use of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used active ingredient in herbicides and possibly the most heavily debated plant protection product since DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), for another 5-year period (1).
- Video: John Franz invented the herbicide glyphosate—is he a farming hero or villain?
Nick Saik | Know Ideas Media | April 16, 2018 - How Toxic is the World’s Most Popular Herbicide Roundup? (Feb 7, 2018 KATARINA ZIMMER TheScientist) Over the years, regulatory agencies have evaluated its potential effects on non-target organisms. However, recent assessments seem to be focused on carcinogenicity and genotoxicity of glyphosate, notes Deborah Kurrasch, a neuroscientist at the University of Calgary.
- Full Committee Hearing – In Defense of Scientific Integrity: Examining the IARC Monograph Programme and Glyphosate Review (Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 – 10:00 am Committee on Science, Space , & Technology) (2:43:43 YOUTUBE動画あり)
- Germany swings EU vote in favor of weed-killer glyphosate (Philip Blenkinsop REUTERS NOVEMBER 27, 2017 / 11:50 PM) Germany defeated its key EU ally France in a very tight vote on Monday to clear the use of weed-killer glyphosate for the next five years after a heated debate over whether it causes cancer.
- Debating Glyphosate (By Catherine Hardy with REUTERS• last updated: 05/10/2017) Europe has been debating for two years whether to allow the weed-killer, used in Monsanto’s Roundup, with no clear majority of countries for or against a license extension and concerns it is carcinogenic.
- Glyphosate: the real science Will new studies that confirm the safety of glyphosate actually stop politicians from banning an essential herbicide? (By Gerald Pilger)
- Glyphosate debate: ‘If we can’t trust science, what do we base policy on?’ (Conor Finnerty AgriLand Oct 13, 2017, 1:01pm) The European debate on glyphosate has led one Irish MEP to question what policy should be based on, if policymakers can’t trust science?
- ‘Don’t allow Monsanto’s RoundUp,’ US cancer victims warn EU (DW Date 05.10.2017
Author Simon Thompson) “In fact Monsanto organized the whole scientific evidence in such a way that there was a real manipulation of facts. They have rewritten scientific reports citing authors who didn’t write the reports themselves, that were in fact written by Monsanto people,” says Barth Staes, a Belgian Green Party MEP. - Glyphosate: Harmless Tool or Sneaky Poison? (10 May, 2017) (3:36:40動画)
- Monsanto and Glyphosate – Glyphosate Not the Only Ingredient in Roundup Proper Gander 2016/03/09 に公開 YOUTUBE動画11:03 毒性に関する論文を紹介したビデオ
- Debate Over Potential Cancer Risk of Widely Used Herbicide (By The Doctors Staff on 7:01 AM PDT, May 18, 2015) The Doctors invite Donna Farmer, a toxicologist with the Product Safety Center at Monsanto, the company that produces the herbicide (known commercially as Roundup), as well as Jeffery Smith, founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology and author of Seeds of Deception. モンサント社の研究者が疑問に答える動画(3:38)
- The Glyphosate Debate (The Doctors YOUTUBE 2015/05/18 に公開 10:48) The Doctors and toxicologist Donna Farmer discuss a recent report issued by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which states that glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, may cause cancer in humans. モンサント社の研究者が疑問に答える動画
グリホサートの作用機序
Inhibition by Roundup
Dr. David Coombs: Science and Mechanism of Glyphosate PART 1 (16:48)