did anybody milledgeville least at the end we found it has a very high. chair and an easy updating of the dr jaya savannah believes the source of the disease lies in the groundwater. in the affected areas it contains various heavy metals in these bond with pesticides and herbicides such as life is sick they form highly toxic compounds. dr jaya some ana has found such toxins in drinking water the researchers believe these could well be causing kidney damage in farm workers it's a hypothesis that sri lanka's agricultural lobby has fought hard to refute. the started it campaign against the economics who did the studies then he'll go to spain where leading. scientists for 110th book he came to sri lanka and he did he was he religious he needs. and he 9 any association between the d.c. sendak to make it but they didn't. we don't really need any.

species but dr joy of somalia has the backing of professor deborah an internationally renowned kidney specialist and. their findings correspond to studies in india and central america where agricultural workers have been afflicted by a very similar epidemic. well we are both different exists but shelley's them and they know these and and i'm a specialist in may for looks at defects so i met him in the covert absence of africa he was even a lecturer and i said this is the bed i want to have a collaboration with because it was extremely different to find the cause of the disease because it's killing so many people and nobody knows what is that he's in and everybody was telling that it was this and the reason and never believed that. so we start the collaboration and thanks to his own doctor called the g.b. to pay them opened the front of the truck and he has to know we've got

a body put to use and we have that absolute evidence that this disease is a toxic if repartee. we showed dr jaya some on his beyer video on the glad to say ban in sri lanka and the alleged damage it caused a farmer's fields. only did one sounds fun and we asked bear's representatives about those claims to the life estate ban really lead to crop losses and found. the glyphosate ban left farmers with annual losses of 100000000 euros cloth commercial deals and have you fact checked the claims made about the effects of the glad to say. yes we wouldn't make them if we hadn't known this is some light. least loss in that the production was basically due to bad with it it was not due to play a scene we then challenge the impartiality of the not allegedly independent expert in the video. agriculture professor bases a positive side of the story for him it serves as

a lesson to the whole world and this is a joke i mean this person but the modern me he is a prophet in agriculture in the bit i think the university at the same packing he was aboard to take off the chemical industries the company just the leading industry intra and he's the sole agent all it and said they came because in truth it didn't move on to talk and impartial viewer would conclude that this individual is an independent expert with objective judgment our research shows he's on the board of a major chemical distributor because it involved this mine i mean if it didn't make sense you wouldn't say it there are advantages to using life estate and that's the message this video is trying to get across the board of the so you think this is an objective cloyd so to speak this is these are the facts on what happened in sri lanka. i think.

to show you new hope will win other places in sri lanka if we show this it could become a joke. later we receive an email from beyers corporate communications department. it underlines the accuracy of its sri lanka video and rejects any attempt to question the facts it contains in particular it defends the expert interviewed in the film as an absolute authority in his field. they are also emphasizes that weather conditions in sri lanka played no significant role in crop losses. the 2 scientists are stunned by this effort to invalidate their findings not least because the scope of their research is much broader than monsanto buyer and their best selling weed killer roundup. how do pesticides enter the human body and what harm can they cause how long can substances like life a safe be detected and how many people are affected.

to answer these questions we had different. at the could so institute in strasbourg scientists spend more than 18 months on a study investigating life estate residues and hair samples from hundreds of people in use at all 6 we take strands less than 3 centimeters long. hair is considered a reliable bio monitoring tool to measure long term exposure to harmful substances . because of what. we found life is a residues in the hair of half the subjects which means that these people have been chronically contaminated with this substance exposed to. the study draws no conclusion as to whether this poses a health hazard but it does show how prevalent the substances in the environment.

this issue optional cuckoos of one. the samples have come in from all over the world we had people send us samples all the way from france and the united states as well as australia and japan. so we can say this is a very representative group in our endeavor to detect like to say. that. the researchers stress that further studies are needed to evaluate the long term effects of. and when it comes to end products like round up the additives also need to be examined. like the state is the key but not the only ingredient in round out subjective. we can't decipher roundups exact formula through our research . body. all we can say is that the end user which in most cases means the farmer is exposed to many more substances

besides just life estate. the manufacturer keeps the formula under wraps leaving researchers to work in the dark as they try to determine defects of roundup on human health. back to bayer this is the company's substance library on. all of the millions of active substances that they are has ever researched or stored here. the company announced at the beginning of june that it will invest 5000000000 euros and research to find life a safe alternatives it made it clear this was not in response to verdicts coming out of the united states and bayer says a global increase in weed resistance poses a threat that life for 6 efficiency it sees the need to find new approaches to weed management. it's a fact for almost 30 years not a single new active ingredient has been brought to market and. life is safe meanwhile has generated increasing concern. that.

australia is the last stop on our life's a journey. roundup is officially licensed for use here but the 1st lawsuits are pending. here to life a state has been linked to disease. ron and trolley snape have a farm until 350 kilometers south of sydney. they used to say for years. that trolley fell gravely ill she is sick and why not always smelled of the ground up after we used it when using on the farm we could actually use it for anything up to a week stroy using of the 5 boys control controlling along friends launched. their own just just general farm use we used it for each then simply. a couple viewed roundup as an indispensable weapon against weeds. and.

no one ever told them of potential health risks the doctor's diagnosis was a shock. they just said to us here.