FDA Needs To Dismiss Former Monsanto Counsel

The recent appointment of Michael Taylor as FDA's Senior Food Safety Advisor is of major public health concern.

In 1984, FDA's Deputy Commissioner Taylor, former counsel for Monsanto and the leading national biotech umbrella organization, warned dairy producers and retailers against "hormone-free" labels on milk from cows that had not been injected with Monsanto's biotech milk stimulant, known as recombinant bovine growth hormone, rBGH, to increase milk production.

On the basis of Taylor's explicit assurances, FDA claimed that such labeling could be "false or misleading," as there was "no significant difference between milk from treated and untreated cows."

However, Taylor's assurance was blatantly false. rBGH induced toxic effects in cows including mastitis. Also, rBGH milk is significantly different from natural milk chemically, nutritionally, pharmacologically and immunologically. It is also contaminated with pus and antibiotics resulting from mastitis induced by the biotech hormone. However, in spite of such well-documented scientific evidence, the FDA authorized the sale and marketing of GE milk in 1984, while blocking any labeling.

Of further and major concern, as detailed in my 2006 book What's In Your Milk? (Trafford Publishing), drinking rBGH milk had been shown to increase risks of breast cancer in 1984. This evidence was later confirmed by over a dozen other scientific publications. rBGH milk was also subsequently shown to increase risks of prostate and colon cancers. Meanwhile, FDA's permissive policies on rBGH milk have remained unchanged for over two succeeding decades.

Based on these considerations, it is anticipated that FDA Commissioner Hamburg, M.D. will request the resignation of Michael Taylor.

Comments

[YourEG]

One of the scariest things about the new Food Safety legislation passed by the House in late July #HR2749
was the move to extend FDA powers over local agriculture. The bill passed the House in about one hour, yet it would have an impact on our food system that could damage local agriculture for decades. When we have a need to ban a crop locally, our local ag department takes care of that. The deeper I look into Michael R. Taylor the more I am concerned. He has spent decades getting his ducks in line with FDA and i Monsanto, Washington, and international Regulators. His latest project is the Leafy Green Guidelines that would harmonize the local farm with Codex type sterility. Here is his quote before the Dennis Kuchinich hearing on Leafy Greens: FDA is leading an effort
through the Codex Alimentarius Commission,
the international food safety standards body,
with support of the Food and Agriculture Organzation
lWorld Health Organization, to develop commodity-
specific annexes to the Codex hygienic code
for fresh fruit and vegetable production­,
starting with an annex for fresh leafy
vegetables and herbs.
http://groc.edgeboss.net/download/groc/domesticpolicy/testimony.of.mr.michael.r.taylor.pdf

On Codex:
http://www.thenhf.com/codex/codex_83.htm

Where to comment on the FDA Leafy Green Guidelines:
http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=09000064809ffea2

MORE on THE LEAFY GREEN GUIDELINES
and links to articles about HYGIENIC http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1464610asp?i=1464610




[Whatevah]

I am troubled by the notion that anyone who disagrees with you should be ineligible for public service.

[000Jade000]

He's not the only one who thinks so:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/youre-appointing-who-plea_b_243810.html

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27042

Taylor is responsible for foisting GMOs on all of us and putting us all in danger. He ought to be as far away from our food system as possible.

[berniew1]

The biggest problem at the FDA is that those in leadership positions have connections to special interests, and clearly in their decisions are not primarily considering the public well being or science, but rather what is beneficial to special interests they have ties to. Dr. Epstein is entirely correct in his assessment, but it applies to a lot more in the leadership at FDA.
A similar special interests connection of those who made the decision to declare dental amalgam safe to use, contrary to the science, resulted in a decision contrary to the public interests and contrary to the medical science. Dental amalgam is documented by thousands of medical labs tests and verified by Gov't agencies to be the largest source of mercury in most who have several amalgam fillings. www.flcv.com/damspr1.html and a common cause/factor in over 30 chronic health conditions(5000 peer-reviewed studies cited) www.flcv.com/indexa.html
Dental amalgam is also documented to be the largest source of mercury in sewers and a major source in water bodies, fish, etc. Those with several amalgam daily excrete about 30 micrograms of mercury into the sewers (EPA/Municipal Sewer Agencies) www.flcv.com/damspr2f.html
Advanced countries such as Europe and Japan are phasing out or banning amalgam use, yet the FDA, dominated by special interests, made this incredible decision.