GMO Toxins and Pregnant Women

[thesummerqueen]

Straight from the Skeptalk e-mail list I give you:

The tone of the article makes it sound maybe only a notch above what one would find in "Natural News", but at least there are some non-self-referential footnotes. Any thoughts on the content?

http://wakeup-world.com/2011/08/11/dange.../?mid=5589

But Monsanto and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) swore up and down that it was only insects that would be hurt. The Bt-toxin, they claimed, would be completely destroyed in the human digestive system and not have any impact on all of us trusting corn-eating consumers.

Oops. A study just proved them wrong.

Doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found the corn’s Bt-toxin in the blood of pregnant women and their babies, as well as in non-pregnant women.(i) (Specifically, the toxin was identified in 93% of 30 pregnant women, 80% of umbilical blood in their babies, and 67% of 39 non-pregnant women.) The study has been accepted for publication in the peer reviewed journal Reproductive Toxicology.