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meat. a machine with a dozen syringes injects a liquid into the lumps of pork. the liquid contains an essential additive. factory manager who shows us. these yellow sacks contain a mixture of salt and sodium nitrite the additive to fifty. percent is the day. the buy to you seem to need a really. good s. up it's the invalid. that's up it's big. in fact he's telling us that the pretty pink of our ham isn't natural at all.
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it's thanks to sodium nitrate. this additive fix is the pink of the me during cooking. otherwise ham would be the color of roast pork. that's why food industrialist can't do without it as a processed meat producer would confirm. glimpses of a loss of c.c. his overall corporal or the girl preschool who did it on the toilet or the high when she or them just got a crush. on claire's a cream jones at the national movie safety for sale. just for myself as a gamer who is going to be here because i'm going to stay. some come up to some benefit. that i can always. listen to.
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the hams pinkies on natural but without the pink it would be impossible to sell. the big problem is that sodium nitrite is believed to be a danger to public health. the additives suspected of playing a role in the development of colorectal cancer. one of the deadliest cancers in europe. because of a phenomenon the takes place during digestion. it's chemistry but will make it simple. piece of cured meet. you think you're peacefully digesting it but what you don't know is the nitrite molecules are reacting with the meat proteins transforming them into very dangerous substances. i mean.
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we went to the netherlands to learn more about the effects of this chemical reaction on our health. to the faculty of medicine of maastricht university. this is where the toxicologist professor works. he's been interested in nitrites for years and by extension natural some means. known to use damage in the test and so in. d.n.a. breaks. cells into sort of precancerous cells and that's of course something. to prevent professor to cook notably wanted to find out what happens. the body when we don't eat processed meat and when we eat a lot of it to do so he conducted an experiment with human guinea pigs.
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for two weeks and this student ate three hundred grams of processed meat a day the equivalent of eight pages. of happened. to fifteen we saw. the exposure to. considerably increased. threefold increase. levels that we measure. the researcher measured the impact on the organism of this chemical mutation of nitrites. in his lab he tested the water of big processed meat eaters. so what you see here is. four different individuals. to see what happens inside the body the researchers mix this water with human cells
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. deposited in the test to. observe what happened to the cells. you see. everything is. but if you are exposed to. breakage it's all of the d.n.a. you see this. is that this will eventually mutate into a type of cell how does it take for. relatively. say when we isolate the cells. and then you already see to break each of the. and. also.
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stop using nitrites then what. would make a difference potentially. in europe. that's huge because. very frequent disease. changes. a cancer risk. thousands fewer and therefore potentially fewer deaths just by suppressing nitrites . but the food industry has a sledgehammer argument for justify the use of. it protects us from botulism. botulism is a form of food poisoning caused by bacteria that affect our central nervous system and can be deadly. ferry right. but there's
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a glitch in their argument. they're already companies which do produce processed meats without nitrites and their customers are in fine form. if you happen to be copenhagen in denmark. pop into a supermarket. there you'll find cured meats nitrites. and for those whose danish is gone a bit rusty it's. it's everywhere. you can easily recognize it by its color more brownish than pretty pink. the best known brand is produced one hundred fifty kilometers south of the capital
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in denmark biggest organic processed meat plant. to god. and. the boss a biochemist started in nitrate free cured meats twenty five years ago. and since then the danish health authorities haven't registered a single case of botulism caused by processed meat. we do not have problems with this bacteria i would say for the last fifty years this has not been a recent. topic in western europe that was a problem and needed to stray. hundred years ago when the thing going up as clean as they are slaughterhouses were another clean as they are today so no worry about bacteria we had to worry about additives that my. it was. and if
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they are not necessary for some very good reasons we should not do is clear the cancer risk today is the main risks that's the main risk today definitely and and agony it has been so. long to produce a nice i need the main reason is that the freight costs not accept we do not have the read call of the day had been used to. here's what people have been saying about rejected and i suspect it's. the only show i go out of my way to time. is that really. the same. better than. say c. heard of.
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the night president of the world bank. seriously send us an e-mail. to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be press this is what before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. is one of the few food industry companies to do with nitrites. and experts have been ringing alarm bells for years twenty five years ago a european union health report already recommended reducing the amounts of nitrite
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used in processed meats. in one thousand nine hundred nine this report even put forward banning its use altogether. despite the increasing number of studies the european commission still allows industrial food companies to add lots of nitrites to the products. so we went to the commissioner for health and food safety a former health minister in lithuania question. is to. follow. to present. its notes. stakes. and. to dispense with the humans
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for over an hour the commissioner attempted to pull the wool over our eyes. in spite of all the reports by experts which for twenty five years have warned the authorities about the dangers of nitrite. all these studies you don't think they're enough you know all those status. it's just your blood sent to transparency since the possibility to have them to show. that she had to do it to follow and to see and to do how to move fully. as soon as possible since parents is good this is . just sort of did all decisions in lawrence of procedures. like this isn't like if i build big. union oh but i'm not kidding of european union i mean this is. going on for so now and started to get started as it started shows that all stand in safety
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in this case is why you lost against denmark in the european court of justice in this story. don't need more info to mention the us i am not one who knows evidence and. so let's look at the facts mr commissioner. denmark wanted to limit the use of nitrites the european commission was against it and in two thousand and three in court the danes won in the name of the protection of public health. and i am very happy about europe. than european. public. it to me is that. missionary. conditions and yet since this court ruling e.u. regulations are just as lax as ever. from my point of view we must be in law and
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just ask you to change the. need for. us to keep. on board popular counts just not profit. but it's but it's of course it's. time perfect that's just what the food industry wants and what it is built its strategy on for years. because when it comes to nitrite industrialists have been waiting out the clock for forty. forty years of scientific manipulation blackmail and intense lobbying so the meat business can carry on bringing home the bacon. and it all began on the other side of the atlantic.
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if you think we're exaggerating listen to this. in the late one nine hundred seventy s. nitrite was almost banned in the united states just after the publication of a large scale study requested by the government. a relationship between. it was proved suggested well proved and a fairly strong one there were two thousand. involved in the study it's a very extensive study done by a well respected scientist. the banning of nitrites was announced in the press but the american media institute would bring out its big guy. in his office overlooking the capitol its president richard ling spoke out. needs to contain or big big thing. about.
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billion dollars about two thirds of the production in those days goes into cured meats and presents a problem or our industry and or the government. we're all hopeful that a solution. with financial analysis the american meat lobby forced the government to back down the banning of nitrites would send prices plummeting and cause an apocalypse. but it was a political event that would close the debate. in one nine hundred eighty ronald reagan was elected president of the united states and guess who entered into government. richard ling the president of the american meat institute himself. the idea of banning nitrite was forever buried.
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a study on two thousand rats ended up in the trash can. and after that the same fate would await every scientific publication calling nitrites into question. if you're wondering how the interest of industry can systematically win against what's at stake in public health the following. fifteen years after the victory of reagan and the media industrialists a new study shook america to the core. if it's not one thing it's another a study finds a link between hot dogs and cancer put yourself in. the shoes of the average american joe at the time. you and your family are eating hot dogs at the shopping mall or in the street just as usual. the effect was immediate in
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a matter of days dog sales fell by eight percent. and given the size of the american market that represented millions of dollars less for the food industry. the author of a hot dog study that caused sales to plummet with susan preston mark. she's now retired scientist living near los angeles in a residential suburban setting straight out of an american so. after several tense months of talks she agreed to see us. but we had to insist right up until the last minute. the lady is very discreet it's only to go from friendship.
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mrs preston much. yes and sometimes you got some strange t.v. . discoveries on processed meats the researcher was the victim of a number of attacks but she agreed to look back at her work which showed up link between the excessive eating of hot dogs and certain rare cancers in children. how did you find the relationship. well just the way we always did when we did case control studies we started out with a group of children who had leukemia and compared them to group children who didn't have the game and we asked the mothers about what they fed the children. and sure enough the kids with. dogs what did you think when you saw this strong relationship because it was quite it was with dogs i was
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a little bit surprised and just. reserved judgment which is what epidemiologists do and they find something they don't expect . from that moment on for the food industrialists susan preston martin became public enemy number one. and the meat lobby they definitely didn't like what we were doing they were terribly upset and i could understand that you know their livelihood was making processed meat and they didn't want any any thing coming out saying that those were not good for you basically were trying to shoot me down or discredit me and that's what shoot down needs scientifically. what we discovered went much further. the scientists had never realized just whom she was dealing with. america made a hot dog. meyer gave it to get a big hit. in the u.s.
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the undisputed champion of supermarket sold hot dogs has always been oscar meyer. america's number one. a brand of the kraft foods group a giant of a food industry. so far no surprises. but what's less known is that at the time and until two thousand and seven kraft was owned by philip morris the world's second largest tobacco company a lobby which went as far as lies and manipulation to defend its own interests notably in the big tobacco lawsuits of the one nine hundred ninety s. do you believe nicotine is not addictive i believe nicotine is not addictive yes i believe. cigarettes questioning proven scientific facts the strategy worked perfectly for years with tobacco so philip morris use it again to save oscar meyer's hot dogs. in kenya
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in georgia stand how the multinational manipulated science to defend its investments in cured meats you know we headed to northern california. to san francisco. this university library holds what are commonly known as the tobacco documents millions of internal tobacco industry documents. and. our guide stanton glantz has spent his life unraveling the cigarette makers strategies. and. he particularly remembers one phrase used by a lobbyist in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. doubters our product since it is the best means of competing with the body of fact that exists in the mind of the
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general public it is also the means of establishing a controversy for him everything is summed up in one word. and it was exactly like that by creating doubt that philip morris set out to discredit dr preston martin study on processed meat and cancer in children. the proof is there in the vast database of the tobacco documents. by typing susan preston martin you get hundreds of hits. and all in the philip morris by. the researchers name crops up regularly in the titles of memos letters and internal reports. the multinational believed her study on hot dogs would reopen the debate surrounding nitrites from the one nine hundred seventy s.
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