Joe Breier, Ph.D.
Regulatory Toxicologist, Bayer Crop Science
Expert Bio
Joe Breier is a Regulatory Toxicologist with Bayer LP and is responsible for variety of pesticide products. He has a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Boston University School of Medicine, is a member of the Society of Toxicology, and is involved in several ad hoc groups through CropLife America.
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A: I’ll try to answer the first part of your question, but obviously, I can’t say anything directly about credibility. As you point out, both Bill Freese and Jack Heinemann are widely cited in anti-GM communications. They hold strongly to certain beliefs that a very large part of the scientific community does not share, but that do resonate within the anti-GM community. Two of these beliefs include that the process involved in modern biotechnology poses unique risks, and that the current regulatory processes used to evaluate risks are unsatisfactory. The majori [...]
A: Generally speaking, credibility, as it relates to scientific data, can be established via independent replication of study results and ultimately leads to acceptance of the data by other scientific experts. In consideration of newly generated data or the absence of study replication, credibility can be obtained by evaluating and characterizing the data against sets of criteria presented in several excellent publications (Klimisch et al., 1997; Conrad and Becker, 2011; Henry and Conrad, 2008). In the pesticide industry, data reliability is achieved through the conduct of toxicity s [...]
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A: In approving genetically modified crops, such as soybeans, with dual herbicide tolerance, USDA evaluates the safety of the crop, while EPA assesses the safety of the pesticide used on the crop, which includes consideration of the potential risk of an adverse health effect, such as cancer. Based on exposure estimates provided by EPA (2011), the likelihood that humans are exposed to carcinogenic levels of isoxaflutole (IFT) is extremely low. First and foremost, it should be emphasized that the cancer classification noted above is an indication of cancer hazard only and does not provide insight [...]
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