Word: diethylstilbestrol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meat and poultry. Only 46 of these are now monitored by the USDA, the agency responsible for inspecting meat, even though 40 are suspected of causing cancer and 18 are suspected of causing birth defects. Antibiotic arsenic compounds, sulfa drugs (long ago linked to cancer), and the infamous diethylstilbestrol (DES), which was found to cause cervical cancer way back in 1971 in daughters of women who used the drug, are still fed and injected into the animals we eat. Despite the existence of safer alternative drugs, the meat industry continues to pour these certified poisons into the food chain. Ironically...
...General Hospital physicians discovered evidence of a link between a certain type of vaginal cancer and a synthetic estrogen widely taken by pregnant women over two decades, it was obvious that medicine had created a hormonal time bomb. The cancer showed up not in the women who had used diethylstilbestrol, or DES, but in their daughters-some 15 or 20 years after birth. Their sons are apparently not threatened by cancer, but there are indications that in some cases they may also be affected-by genital deformities or sterility. By 1971, when the federal Food and Drug Administration warned physicians...
...Herbst and a team of Boston doctors discovered that daughters of women who took diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen compound, during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage had a distinct tendency to develop vaginal cancer...
Although the Pill and other contraceptives are readily available, many women still have unwanted pregnancies because they neglect-or have no opportunity-to take precautions before intercourse. Now, the Federal Government is acting to provide help in the form of the chemical diethylstilbestrol (DES). Last week the Food and Drug Administration announced that it was in the process of clearing DBS for use as a postcoital contraceptive in certain emergency situations...
...Health as well as a presidential adviser, thinks that the organic movement has increased public awareness of the chemicals that have become regular ingredients of processed foods. Such knowledge, he feels, has been at least partially responsible for the banning of cyclamates, artificial sweeteners used in soft drinks, and diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic hormone-like substance added to cattle feeds. Both have been linked with cancer in humans. Says he: "Some commercial soft-drink labels read like a qualitative analysis of the East River." He stresses, however, that since the first White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health...