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water. belgian pipes for political record of the countries gripped by the deadlock over forming a new government for almost a year. old separatist moods many experts say the e.u. member states may break up triggering a domino effect in the e.u. . coming up next a special report on profiteers in the us medical drugs market. my mother was diagnosed with cancer at the age of forty nine she did not smoke she ate five fruits and vegetables a day exercised regularly and her parents never had cancer yet she was diagnosed with the disease what caused her cancer no one could say i kept wondering why.

a. every day about three new synthetic chemicals enter the consumer market of the one hundred thousand synthetic chemicals in heavy commercial use only about two percent have talked to the logical profiles in other words every day without our consent or exposed to about ninety five thousand untested chemicals.

who exactly are the world's leading chemical producers. now a new product is on grocery store shelves genetically modified foods. who develops most of the world's genetically modified crops. well only and then pulled independent studies have been conducted health problems ranging from infertility to proliferate of changes have been detected to these foods cause cancer we have no idea because no long term health of these have been conducted anywhere the rest easy because if someone in your family is diagnosed with cancer a number of treatments are available and here are the companies that provide them.

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this is sarnia situated three hundred kilometers from toronto. you and i may not live in sarnia but we use the fruits of its labor. vinyl siding lastic audio furniture pesticides chargeable batteries plastic food containers compact disk cases paints in jet fuel and gasoline. to make these products over five and a half million kilograms of suspected and known human carcinogens which are so. and

says that cause cancer are emitted each year. dioxins one of the most toxic personages known to science is also admitted during these chemical processes. sitting in the middle of these over sixty chemical plants is the first nations reservation. we're going. to last. week. with health issues we were raising our concerns with respect to. you know a lot of me experiencing. they didn't want to use concerns. they just in my view concerned so therefore be contributing not actually and that's how almost every one of our meeting with the government has been there knowing that

they need for the industry we're out there we're trying to tell the industry that they have to name all chemicals to them and they said they are the future that n.p.r. are but the only report which is that over and over the kinds of chemicals that early and the industry has kind of sceptical they don't want to give away the trade secrets you know this and they say they do thought before and you're talking about who's going to actually police. get rid of now and just let industry police themselves and the leader just that name but in your office waiting for them to report to you can tell you what is going on shouldn't that be allowed at home. we actually sold them the land i don't know what here it was they they did hold the both gallon here and ask. well the sell the land and i don't know how much land

that they ended up selling to them but. i have asked our elders and they said that they were told that there was going to be chemical storage for the work that they tell you about chemicals that their chemical. boat if they didn't really tell me a whole lot more. and then everybody had bad time i guess they must have been looking at thinking of dollars times that they're going to get some money. for the lights anybody for the moment. when the kids ride their bikes in the town and that they say it like if there's a mist sometimes there's a mr nick berg and then they have all these little walkways around here they have a coming from sarnia and they want to put it through a chemical vault why it's going to kill everybody.

every single facility that just any any kind of picture come to find and expensive i tell you what on benzene in particular there's no law limiting how much facilities can emit i mean the benefit that the industry has down there in having so many different facilities is nobody can point to one facility and say you're caught because of the problem so everybody had it all the industries down there if you're going to point to everybody else and say there are many more and we are the vision to clean up the mess we have all kinds of evidence that our emissions have been reduced substantially and by measuring them. by working collectively as a as a group of companies to keep improving our performance there have been examples over the years in our reports where a companies have. looked at the responsible care ethic and decided well this we can't do it this way to see her too risky to the community or transporting something that's in a way that's not we can't offend or

a product looks too risky i'm not sure i could manage it so let's just limit it so there are countless examples i think where people have continually challenge themselves and prove their performance and ended up in their view a better company for. what we're finding out from the bucket sampling because what we do is we take a sample. and then we ship it off to california and then they tested to see what chemicals are in there and at what levels then we give a guide to global community monitoring and they love the chemicals and how they can affect your body and what the standards are in the states for these chemicals. that

we turned around and headed to the people here are strong old people just us they love the standards in canada or terrio or whatever. with their foreign aid that there is a lot of there is no standards for a lot of these chemicals here soledad one day when there are shortages there are slides. showing all the chemicals that are produced and how they affect your body and as i was looking at i don't know there's a whole bunch of people on the reserve that have these bonuses. in two thousand and four a to compile the health survey of the nine hundred residents in the adult she discovered severe chronic headaches chronic respiratory problems severe skin problems. near logical problems in fertility in miscarriages birth effects cancers and loss of children to illness

in the children she found severe chronic headaches chronic respiratory problems neurological problems developmental problems severe skin problems arthritis birth defects kidney and bladder diseases and cancer. where do you thoughts on the relationship between health and the petrochemical industry i'm not so sure what the relationship is we do know again we also legacy issues and you know mesothelioma is an issue related to the use of specialists and industry and you know that's well documented as well understood and we know that there is this legacy issue out there you know it's unfortunate we have empathy for those individuals who are suffer from as a feeling on one but we do know there is a legacy issue there with respect to other health issues that you know i think

there's been a lot of inference was made of both the connection between health and potential emissions coming from the coming from the petrochemical industry this is one of the reasons why we have many others in the community major major major players in the community are advocating for a comprehensive health study a scientifically rigorous rigorous peer reviewed health study. in sorry it's not if you're going to get cancer it's when we found a cat in my mom's field and the cat have since been sprayed down at the end of the season and she was drenched with pus decides we brought her home to died so i can stand the thought of her dying and the field. the mattress just save her life but she has ongoing neurological problems she has seizures and tremors and if she's around any pesticides now or any type of chemical she has seizures and i started thinking if it's happening to cats what is it to cost so now start looking at cosmetic pesticides and the science behind the master's degree in science so

reading the stuff you carried over as a kid you know became very interesting in my life to learn what actually happens to chemicals when they hit right so and then with my husband working in chemical growing i was even more interesting learning the stuff that happened there and then my mom got the first of her three cancers and then she got second and then i got cancer and then she got the third and my concern about cancer is in this community on a personal level you know and you know that's got nothing to do with with with my job here or anything else you know regrettably in our society there's all kinds of potential for different exposures to lifestyle issues and genetics all have to be factored in i mean clearly i have had relatives who have you know terrible diseases what their relationship is i couldn't tell you you know what i mean and again but i don't have a concern that incidents are you related to the kinds of things that you're talking

about you know that the levels of contamination there are among the highest ever recorded for as best as for benzine for the dioxins so why are we doing this and we really it's supposed to be illegal to experiment on people without their permission. that's the nuremberg protocols sarnia is violating the nuremberg laws we passed a number of laws that were basic environmental laws to clean up the air the water soil and provide for protection for consumers and workers the fundamental tenet of those laws was it's better to be safe than sorry the basic precautionary principle was in those laws in the one nine hundred seventy s. but in the one nine hundred eighty s. we moved away from that approach and we took the position in the government that we have proof in terms of human harm and dead bodies and we've now got to come back to the precautionary approach in europe they've passed legislation like the rich

program to require evaluation of chemical hazards but over the past eight years the bush administration has hammered away as has the canadian government at the european union saying that's a restraint of trade it's going to interfere with our ability to have commerce so the european principles have become a slightly weaker because of that but they're still better than what we have in canada the us today in canada and the us today it is legal for you to use a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer in animals but not in europe it's not legal so why should european babies bottoms be safer than my grandchildren.

millon michigan is home to dow chemicals world headquarters well dupont. bear monsanto and i.c.i. which is today owned by asco nobel are all responsible for releasing dioxins dow chemical is thought to be the world's largest root source of dioxin. it was also thought to be the world's largest producer of chlorine one of the root causes of dioxins and the largest producer of chemical feedstocks to make p.v.c. plastics whose life cycle is associated with more dioxin formation than any other manmade product on earth. because of these modern chemical processes by nine hundred eighty seven were present in everything from gators to coffee filters to tampons. in two thousand and three dare released an open letter to midland residents stating the doubts ins were naturally occurring substance the letter however forgot to clarify

a few more details. forest fires and volcanoes do produce dioxins they are not the same dioxins created during chemical processes many doubts and also a number of the natural variety by a hundred to one. a letter also forgot to mention that the first health assessment of dioxin completed by the american environmental protection agency estimated that more people will get more cancer from dioxins than any other chemical on earth. as it all signs up there are the dow property again the sold out property. dioxin is a molecule it's a byproduct of topical processing it is a known carcinogen alvord will dispute that dow has been able to manufacture so much uncertainty about this chemical that if you look around the west rest of the world nobody else is debating the toxicity of dioxin except here and michigan. in

fact one false toxicologist in the nineteen seventies said that this is perhaps one of the most toxic materials he's ever seen. why do you think the disputed now. because there's the financial implications are you know there's the pending class action lawsuit against the tropical from residents on the river. and i think the implications for. denying the touch the sea the chemical now has bigger broader implications worldwide i mean there are a lot of dioxin contaminations around the country that you know not that not just i was responsible for that could be saddled or you know could have have ramifications from the subtle matter of being in on the toxicity of dioxin or on the some a bit of a class action lawsuit here i think the ramifications are huge for the chemical industry.

but. margaret. we came here it was like an ideal spot the only thing we didn't realize the nineteen sixty seven when we bought it we were three miles downriver from the chemical plant. i had five children in three of them have immune disorders. and my husband when he was diagnosed with colon cancer. my sister in law when i called her to tell her she said oh no i i would expect diabetes or heart disease not cancer we don't have any cancer in the family and he actually went there into

a pilot's belly that the. health department in michigan was doing. and they came out and took his dioxin levels and the thursday before he died and he . thought he was really pretty weak but he said that he would do anything that could help prove that you know there were problems with. living here and the chemical contamination in the area he had a high level of different dioxin contaminants in it spoiled with. high for his age a level like in the ninety five percentile my husband died at seventy his uncles lived to be in their ninety's and as i said he wasn't sick so you know you say well of seventy that's

a good life but if there were twenty more years. that i would have liked if i had twenty. i living a corporate jet for dow could be interesting and rewarding particularly when it's an evil. corporate angel network uses empty seats on company business trips to fly cancer patients who need special ice treat the patients like christy this company does great things this is one. thing and. now declined to be interviewed for this film if given the opportunity we would have been curious to know what that little girl dioxin levels were.

you know we've heard people say i don't see dead bodies floating down the river is that what it takes to get a response from the public health officials from elected officials i don't know but again cancer is very ubiquitous in our area and we have you know these tremendous cancer rates and it's dioxin responsible for all of it no part of it all probably but we have p.c. bees we have many many other contaminants out there in our environment that could be responsible for this the dioxin is just a part of it one hundred percent of cancers are genetically determined which means that for this cell to become cancerous we need to have a genetic change in needs general ok he doesn't mean that one hundred percent of cancers are retiring completely different story so even so hundred percent of

cancer so jim it's going to be determined. only five to ten percent of cancers are area the time. when birds are so low in this is that a lot of people have be c oh my god but nobody with cancer and i find me therefore i protect focus because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers occur among people without funding history of cancer childhood cancer has increased thirty percent in the past two decades testicular cancer cancer of young men has increased fifty percent in every industrial country and that's because of aging and we are seeing an increase in cancer in the elderly adjusted for the fact that there are more of that yes we have more cancer because we are living longer and there are more older people but that does not explain all of the increase in cancer that we're seeing today. ruben's

a new foundation is the only research facility in the world to perform full life span rodent studies on the carcinogenic potential of chemical substances. the foundation is also unique in that it has come forward you can screenings of every organ in every road and tested for long term health studies of this kind which can cost about a million dollars are not required by companies wishing to license a new somebody a chemical drug or genetically modified crops. or two thousand and five study on aspartame the artificial sweetener involved one thousand eight hundred rodents previous experiments on aspartame had had twenty rodents per group or forty rodents per group and so when we came in and did one hundred fifty rhoda's per sex per group it was very important results as a rule the u.s. in t.p. sacrifices their rodents aster two years of life so their

experiments they usually take one hundred in ten weeks that's considered the gold standard. whereas our experiments are lifespan and rather than interrupted the experiment and sacrificing the animals that one hundred ten weeks are our rodents live out their natural lifespan about fifty percent of what they have studied has proven to be carcinogenic and about fifty percent of what we have study there is data that shows that we actually only have scientific information hard data about two percent of all the chemical known chemical substances so it is a huge discrepancy between what we know and what we don't know and fortunately we as citizens tend to confuse the absence of evidence with the absence of risk that is in agent has not been adequately studied adequately and

i would add independently studied it does not mean that it is safe. there tentative obviously is always to call questioning zip code in many. shun know about chemical agent chemical compounds you know industry used to do the own work and understandable what does not understand the boat if he's a. shank this doesn't do that i work and that is why most of the shanties i've not put in different they are sponsored by industry and most of the great bone that clean the conflict of interest. issues that so much in addition to each musician trying to visit friends for

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