China Chided, U.S. Conducts Business As Usual

In light of the consternation about China, the U.S. government formed a cabinet-level Product Safety Panel.

It has also raised questions for a leading U.S. health expert. “The criticism of China is well-based, but we need to listen to the facts that there are a wide range of hazardous chemicals in U.S. products,” said Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, chair of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.

Epstein, a professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, said that our foremost concern should be contaminated U.S. beef and milk.

Producers inject dairy cows with a Monsanto genetically-recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) to increase milk production. One third of U.S. herds are injected.

Epstein cited articles in 30 scientific publications that show that rBGH produces abnormally high levels of IGF-1, a natural growth factor, that increases the risk of breast cancer seven-fold and increases the risk of colon and prostate cancers.

Milk produced with rBGH has been widely banned by nations including 29 European countries: Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDÅ) has no restrictions on the milk and no

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