Word: diethylstilbestrol
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...villain, according to Sáenz and other Puerto Rican doctors, could be the local food-beef, chicken and that fundamental childhood staple, milk. These physicians suspect that meat and milk producers are unlawfully using estrogen and related compounds, including the federally banned carcinogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), to add heft to their animals. High consumption of such chemicals has been known to cause premature thelarche, and, say the doctors, when patients are withdrawn from the suspect foods, nearly all recover within six to eight months. The charges have triggered a spate of Government investigations, a volley of denials by the meat...
...abdominal cavity into the scrotum, a lapse that normally occurs during development of the fetus; and men with a testicle that descended only after they were six years old. Preliminary studies suggest that undescended testicles may be more frequent in boys born to women who received the hormone diethylstilbestrol, or DES, during pregnancy. The hormone was widely prescribed in the 1940s and 1950s to help prevent miscarriage...
During the 1940s and 1950s as many as 4 million women took the synthetic hormone DES (diethylstilbestrol) to prevent miscarriages. But by 1971 doctors had unequivocal evidence that the drug produced worrisome cervical abnormalities in the women's female children. Now, after a five-year study of DES daughters, a team at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital has encouraging news: two types of DES-linked cervical lesions in these offspring apparently disappear in time and do not seem to be precancerous...
Some 2 million pregnant women had taken DES (diethylstilbestrol) to help prevent miscarriage before the Food and Drug Administration alerted physicians to its dangers in 1971. Doctors suspected that the estrogen drug was causing vaginal and cervical cancer in daughters born to those women, and more recently have also implicated it in genital abnormalities and infertility in sons. Now there is more unsettling news for DES daughters. When they reach childbearing age, they appear to be more vulnerable than others to miscarriage-as well as to stillbirth, premature birth and ectopic pregnancy (in which the fetus grows outside the uterus...
...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...