the banks. hello this is our team from moscow my name's kevin zero in that we take you through our top stories fierce clashes between pro-government and opposition forces of that we're intensified for a fifth night of coalition airstrikes the debate over who should lead the allied intervention of the u.s. decreases its involvement fails to bring results. police crackdown on the news there of the demonstrations in brussels with tear gas and water cannons the protesters say western countries should not be imposing cuts and hold while spending millions on the libya campaign. on the first images of the workers

struggling to stabilize the situation in japan's fukushima power plant are the most reports say three more of the so-called nuclear summarized have been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. next a special report for you exposing the potential hazards of genetically modified foods. 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 if 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 and in other words every day without our consent we're 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. we developed most of the world's genetically modified crops. only and then hold 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 studies have been conducted anywhere in the rest easy because if someone in your family is diagnosed with cancer a number of treatments are available and you're 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 though we use the fruits of its labor. busted patio furniture pesticides rechargeable batteries plastic food containers compact this cases paints and jet fuel and gasoline. to make these products over five and a half million kilograms of suspected and known human carcinogens which are so. senses that cause cancer are emitted each year. dioxins one of the most toxic

carcinogens known to science is also a manager in these chemical processes. sitting in the middle of these over sixty chemical plants is the first nations reservation. we're going. to. be. health issues we're resume our concerns with respect to. you know a lot of pollution that we've been. experiencing these they don't want to use concern if they just don't want to use concern so if we're going to be not actually in that hole almost every one of them even what the government has been the no one

had that they need for the industry workers out there are trying to tell the industry that they have to name all the temples to them and they say they are really huge that n.p.r. i but they only report which is that over and over and tons of chemicals that are linked and that industry has kind of step because they don't want to give away the trade secrets in all this and they say they do suffer for it and you're talking about who's going to actually police believe you're free now you just let industry police them follow you and all these are just a name but in your office waiting for them to report to you and tell you what's going on shouldn't that mafia like to bomb. we actually sold them the land i don't know what here it was they they did hold a boat out here and ask. people that 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 well what did they tell you about chemicals that their chemical. boat did they didn't really tell me a whole lot more. and then everybody at that time i guess they must have been looking and i think that a dollar signs that they're going to get some money. like somebody profited from it. when the kids ride their bikes into town and that they say it like if there is a mist sometimes there is a mist in the earth. and then they have all these little walkways around here they have come in from star you know and they want to put it through a chemical about why it's going to kill everybody.

every single facility that does any any kind of picture coming to find and it's going to 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 my facility and say you're caught because of the problem so everybody had all the industries down there and if you go to the printer you know it's sitting there in the morning here it is fish to clean up the mess we have all kinds of evidence that our missions have been reduced substantially one 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 there's a seat or too risky to the community or transporting something next in a way that's not we can't defend or

a product looks too risky i'm not sure i can 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 pocket sampling because what we do is we take a sample. and we ship it off to california and then they tested to see what chemicals are in there and at what level then we give a back 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 strong old people just us and that

they loved the standards in canada or kerry or whatever and with their finding that there is a lot of there is no standards for a lot of these chemicals here sold out so one day when there are shortages there are slides. are showing all the chemicals that are produced and how they affect your body and i was i was looking at that of oh my god there's a whole bunch of people on the reserve that have these notices. and two thousand and four ada compiled a health survey of the nine hundred residents in the adults she discovered severe chronic headaches chronic respiratory problems severe skin problems. near logical problems infertility and miscarriages birth defects. cancers and loss of children. in the children she found severe chronic

headaches chronic respiratory problems your logical problems. developmental problems severe skin problems arthritis birth defects kidney in bladder diseases and cancer. where do you thoughts on the relationship between health and the petrochemical industry i'm not 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 a specialist in industry and you know that's well documented as well understood and we know that resist legacy issue up there you know it's unfortunate we have empathy for those individuals who are suffer from is a feeling normal 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 me coming from the petrochemical industry this is one of the reasons why we and many others in the 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 and my mom seals and the calves and sprayed down at the end of the season and she was drenched with pus decides we brought her home to die because i can stand the thought of her dying in the field. we managed to save her life but she has ongoing neurological problems she has seizures and timers and if she's around any pesticide smell or any type of a harsh chemical she has seizures and i started thinking if it's happening to cats what is it doing to us so when i start looking at cosmetic pasta sites and the science behind that i do master's degree in science so reading the stuff again over

there is the getting out of here very interesting in my life to learn what actually happens to chemicals from her body so and then with my husband working in chemical valley i was even more interesting learning the stuff that happened there and then my mom got her first of her three cancers and then she got second and then i got cancer and then she got the third. my concern about cancers in this community on a personal level. and you know that's got nothing to do with with with my job here or anything else. regrettably in our society there's all kinds of potential for different exposures a lifestyle issues and genetics all have to be factored in i mean clearly i have had relatives who of 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 living in the city of sarnia related to do 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 what we're really it's supposed to be illegal to experiment on people without their permission. that's the nuremberg protocols sarnia is violating the nuremberg protocols 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 had to have proof in terms of human harm and dead bodies and we've now got to come back to the cautionary approach in europe they've passed legislation like the reach programme 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 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.

milind michigan is home to dow chemicals world headquarters well dupont. they are monsanto and i.c.i. which is today owned by asco nobel are all responsible for releasing dioxin that chemical is thought to be the world's largest root source of dioxin and. 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 droughts information than any other manmade product on earth. because of these modern chemical processes by nine hundred eighty seven sins were present in everything from the daters to coffee filters to tampons. in two thousand and three darragh least an open letter to middling residents douses were naturally occurring substance the letter however forgot to clarify a few details. forest fires and volcanoes do produce their actions they're not the

same to oxen's created during chemical processes man made out 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. little signs up there are the doubt property again this all doubt property. dioxin is a molecule it's a byproduct of chemical processing it is a known carcinogen although i will dispute that gal has been able to manufacture so much uncertainty all discount mccall 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 around dallas toxicologist in the one hundred seventy s. said that this is perhaps one of the most toxic materials he's ever seen. why do you think be disputed now. because there's the financial implications i know there's a pending class action lawsuit against al comical from residents on the river. and i think the implications for the dow denying the texas to the chemical now has bigger broader implications worldwide i mean there are a lot of dioxin contaminations around the pantry that you know not that not just those responsible for that could be saddled or you know could have to have ramifications from the settlement or agreement on the toxicity of dioxin or on the side of a class action lawsuit here i think the ramifications are huge for the chemical industry.

but i agree. we came out here it was like an ideal stunt the only thing we didn't realize in one nine hundred sixty seven when we bought it that we were three miles down river from a chemical plant. i have five children and 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 died in two eight highlights daily 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 . he was really pretty weak but he said that he would do anything if it would help prove that there were problems with. him living here and the chemical contamination in the area he had a high level of different dioxin contaminants and it's part of. a high for his age level like in the ninety five percent my husband died at seventy eight his uncle's lived to be in their ninety's and as i said he wasn't sick so you know you say well seventy that's a good life but if there were twenty more years. that i would have liked if i had

twenty years. of corporate jet for jale could be interesting and rewarding for a ticket really when it's an angel. corporate angel network uses empty seats on company business trips to fly cancer patients which i feel i should treat patients like christy this company does great things this is one. am. 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.

now 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 the law to fistfuls i don't know what if you have cancer it's very ubiquitous in our area 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 v's 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 and one hundred percent of cancers are genetically determined which means that for this cell to become cancerous need to have high genetic change in its general ok it doesn't mean that hundred percent of cancers are hit with a charge completely different story so even thought hundred percent of cancer start

jim it's going to be determined. only five to ten percent of cancers are carried to term. the importance of so knowing this is that a lot of people say oh my god nobody with cancer in my family therefore i protect folks because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers occur among people with felt family 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 not 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're living longer and there are more older people but that does not explain all of the increase in cancer that we're seeing today the romans any foundation is the only research facility in the world

to perform full lifespan rodent studies on the carcinogenic potential of chemical substances for the foundation is also unique in that it does pathological screenings of every organ in every rodent tested. long term health studies of this kind which in cost about a million dollars are not required by companies wishing to license a new synthetic 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 twenty rodents per group or forty rodents per group and so when we came in and did one hundred fifty rodents for sex per group it was very important results as a rule the us in t.p. sacrifices their rodents aster to years of life so their experiments usually take one hundred in ten weeks that's considered the gold

standard. whereas our spare moments are lifespan and rather than interrupt the experiment and sacrificing the animals 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 steady but 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 unfortunately we as citizens tend to confuse the absence of evidence with the absence of risk but if an agent has not been adequately studies adequately and

i would add independently study it does not mean that it is safe. the tentative of the industry is always to procrastinate. a job in many of. about chemical agent chemical compounds you know industry used to do being on water and understandable but does not understand the boat. shanties doesn't do that i work and that is why most of the shanties out independent they are sponsored by industry and most of the they don't create the conflict of interest.

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