market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines if you mean to cause a report on our. terror with this joint is the latest news in the week's top stories knotty the key parts of asia in the pacific rim agree to stop working on a free trade zone that could revitalize relations the russian and u.s. presidents also use the apec summit for a meeting on the sidelines to discuss missile defense and russia's membership of the world trade organization. new governments in and prime ministers out the clouds of debt ridden greece and italy as opposed nations raced to pullback from the financial abyss to prove you're starting measures to steer clear of bankruptcy and avert disaster in the euro zone. plus a u.n.

report claims iran might be secure train a nuclear weapon but turn on slams the allegations as a u.s. backed smear campaign going in or make as of now reconsidering that country's cooperation may be eighty eight which they're calling it disappointment talking about with more news for you more developments in the meantime reports on just how toxic the american pharmaceutical industry can get in its pursuit of profit that's our special extended report next on r.t. 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.

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. 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 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 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. to carry your furniture pesticides chargeable batteries plastic food containers compact this cases paint 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. and

says that cause cancer are in that each year. dioxins one of the most toxic carcinogens known to science is also emitted during these chemical processes. sitting in the middle of these over sixty chemical plants is the first nations reservation. were. asked. if health issues we were reason our concerns. about you know all. experiencing. they didn't want to use cancer if they just had my view concert so if we're going to be eating off actually that's how almost every one of our meeting

with the government has been. at that because they need for the industry both of those out there were trying to tell the industry that they have to name all particles to them and they said they are really huge that n.p.r. but they only report what is it over and over and kinds of chemicals that their belief and that industry has kind of set because they don't want to give away their trade secrets to notice and they say you need to stop before you're talking about who's going to actually police. your group now you just let industry police themselves and all eagerness that meaning but in your office waiting for them to report you can tell you what's going on should not that popular landed on. we actually sold them the land i don't know what here it was they they did hold

a boat out 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 well what did they tell you about chemicals that their chemical. abode it they didn't really tell them a whole lot more. and then everybody had bad time i guess they must have been looking at thinking of dollars i know that they're going to get some money. but it's anybody profited from it. when the kids ride their bikes in the town and that they say it like if there is i missed something there is a mystery bird 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 to the radio to kill everybody.

every single facility that just any any kind of pressure coming from refining and it's going to 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 my facility and say you're caught because of the problem so everybody that it only industries down there have been going to point us and say there are many more that we are the vision to clean up the mess we have all kinds of evidence that our emissions have been agreed to 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 this is either too risky to the community or transporting

something that's in a way that's not. we can't defend 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 very you a better company for. what we're finding out from the bucket sampling because what we do is we take a sample. 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 guard to global community monitoring and they love the chemicals and how they can affect your body and what the standards are in the states where these chemicals at

their leisure around and headed to the people here are strong old people just us and that they love the standards in canada or kerio or whatever. but there are forty that there is a lot of there is no standards for a lot of these chemicals here soledad what they were they were short as the slides . are 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 things don't listen. in two thousand and four a to compile the health survey of nine hundred residents in the adult she discovered severe chronic headaches chronic respiratory problems severe skin problems near logical problems infertility in miscarriages birth defects cancers and loss of children tillman

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 what are 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 really go see 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 there is this legacy issue out there you know it's unfortunate we have empathy for those individuals who are suffer from as i think you know and but we do

know there is a legacy issue there with respect to other health issues and you know i think there's been a lot of inference is made of brought 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 copper has a 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 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 cannot stand the thought of her dying and i feel. the merest to save her life but she has ongoing neurological problems she has seizures and timers and if she's around any pesticide snail or any type of 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 time cosmetic pastor sites and the science behind i have a master's degree in science so reading this stuff would hurry over as a kid you know became very interesting in my life to learn what actually happens to chemicals on her body so and then with my husband working in chemical 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 anything else you'll regrettably in our society there's all kinds of potential for different exposures and lifestyle issues and genetics all have to be factored in i mean clearly i have had relatives who have curable 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 the kinds of things that you're talking about we know that the levels of contamination there are among the highest ever recorded for as best as for benzene for the dioxins so why are we doing this and what 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 protocols we passed a number of laws that were basic environmental laws to clean up the air of 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.

midland michigan is home to doubt chemicals world headquarters well dupont p.s. the bear monsanto and i.c.i. which is today owned by asco nobel are all responsible for releasing dioxins that 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 there released an open letter to millan residents stating that dioxins were naturally occurring substance the letter

however forgot to clarify a few important details. forest fires and volcanoes do produce dioxins they are not the same toxins 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 by oxen's than any other chemical on earth. little signs up there are the doubt property again dissolved out property. dioxin is a molecule it's a byproduct of topical processing it is a known carcinogen alvord will dispute that tao has been able to manufacture so much uncertainty about this chemical that if you look around the rust rust of the

world nobody else is debating the toxicity of dioxin except your admission. in fact one of those toxicology is the linchpin subsidies 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 are you know there's the pending class action lawsuit against al comical for residents on the river. and i think the implications for the dow denying the toxicity 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 to have ramifications from the subtle matter of being in on the toxicity of dioxin or on the somewhat of a class action lawsuit here i think the ramifications are huge for the chemical industry.

but. why. 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 in there into

a pilot's 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 . thought he was really pretty weak but he said that he would do anything if it would 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 and it spoiled with. high for his age a level like in the ninety five percentile my husband who guided 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 lived in a corporate jet for dow could be interesting and were awarded one particularly when it's a. corporate angel network uses empty seats on company business trips to fly cancer patients which i feel i should treat the 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.

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 public health officials from a lot of the missiles i don't know what a good cancer is very ubiquitous in our area we have you know all these tremendous cancer rates and it's dioxin responsible for all of it no part of it oh 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 the it's general ok it doesn't mean that one hundred percent of

cancers are returning completely different story so even so hundred percent of cancers are genetic going to be determined only five to ten percent of cancers are there at the time. importance of so knowing this is that a lot of people in the sea oh my god nobody with cancer in my find me therefore i protect thought because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers occur among people without 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 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 the romans a new 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 road in tested. long term health studies of this kind which in constitute a million dollars are not required by companies wishing to license a new simply 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 rodents 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 are usually take one hundred in ten weeks that's considered the gold standard. whereas our spare moments are lifespan and rather than interrupted the experiment and sacrificing the animals at 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 but in agent has not been adequately studied adequately and i would add independently study it does not mean that it is safe. the tentative of the industry is always to call christ in a zip a job of regulation about chemical agent chemical compounds you know implicitly used to do the work and understandable what is not understand the boat he's a. shame this doesn't do that i work and that is why most of the shanties that are not independent they are sponsored by industry and most of the they don't claim the conflict of interest.

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