Many studies have been done regarding GMOs; some clarify the connection between GMOs in the food supply and the growth in health issues. One particular study based on the first sixteen years of commercial sale of GMOs conducted Dr. Charles M. Benbrook and …show more content…
One of these studies show the connection between the pesticides used for GMO and health issues in the citizens that live and or work near the pesticides. Dr. Silvia Lopez of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires F.D., Argentina, noted that numerous health conditions were directly related to the use of GMOs in studied areas. Workers that spray the pesticides on the GMO crops were most affected however, effects were also found in entire communities. These harmful effects include lip, stomach, brain and prostate cancers in men and ovarian, breast, multiple myeloma, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in women (Lopez, et al., 2012, p. 46). The spectrum of symptoms they found in the studies includes everything from headaches and dizziness to irreversible genetic damage (Lopez, et al., 2012, p. 47). A region in Paraguay that produces soybean was found to have a high number of stillbirths of women that became pregnant in the spring; there is an increase of pesticides used in the water during the spring. There were also significantly higher rates of congenital malformation that also coincide with that season in that region (Lopez, et al., 2012, p.