Author(s)

Stephanie Seneff¹, Nancy Swanson², Chen Li¹, Gerald Koenig³

¹Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
²Abacus Enterprises, Lummi Island, WA, USA.
³Health-e-Iron, LLC, Austin, TX, USA.

An analysis of selected datasets from the FDA’s drug Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) leads us to hypothesize that glyphosate contamination in both food and drugs is a major contributor to chronic and acute kidney failure respectively. In chronic kidney failure, glyphosate-induced pancreatitis results in the release of trypsin, causing a leaky vasculature. The albumin-bound glyphosate escapes into the tissues, protecting the circulatory system and kidneys but resulting in multiple symptoms related to skin, gut, brain, bones, lungs, etc. The rare and poorly understood acute kidney failure response reported for protamine sulfate and Trasylol^? is strikingly similar to that associated with glyphosate poisoning. Both drugs are derived from biological tissues that are plausibly contaminated with glyphosate. These drugs protect from haemorrhage, which leads to retention of glyphosate in the vasculature, are followed by circulatory collapse and a high likelihood of death as an outcome. We support our argument by comparing symptom profiles of selected subsets of FAERS with those related to glyphosate poisoning, anomalous reactions to protamine sulfate, and conditions showing strong statistical time-trend correlations with glyphosate.

Drug Side Effects, Drug Contamination, Renal Failure, Glyphosate, Pancreatitis, Osteonecrosis, Protamine Sulfate, Aprotinin, Oedema

Seneff, S., Swanson, N., Li, C. and Koenig, G. (2015) Death as a Drug Side Effect in FAERS: Is Glyphosate Contamination a Factor? Agricultural Sciences, 6, 1742-1501. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/as.2015.612143