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By MARIAN BURROS
Published: November 9, 2005
DATAMONITOR, which tracks supermarket sales, has reported that "growth in organic milk is largely driven by continued use of hormones such as rbGH and antibiotics in the conventional dairy industry."

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Bottle of White (November 9, 2005) Monsanto, the chemical company, received approval from the F.D.A. in 1993 to use synthetic bovine growth hormone to increase a cow's milk production.

"We continue to remain confident in the animal and human safety associated with the use of Posilac," Tom Helscher, a Monsanto executive, said yesterday, using the hormone's brand name. But milk from cows treated with rbGH has higher levels of insulin-like growth factor-1, referred to as IGF-1, than that from untreated cows, according to figures Monsanto sent to the F.D.A.

The missing link is whether milk from rbGH-treated cows translates into higher IFG-1 levels in humans than milk from untreated cows.

Research reported in The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics showed that IGF-1 largely survives digestion.

Studies show that elevated levels of IGF-1 in the body are linked to increased risk of colon, prostate and breast cancer. Susan E. Hankinson of Harvard Medical School, the lead researcher in one such study, said, "Prospective studies see little or no relationship in postmenopausal women, but in premenopausal women, the levels of IGF-1 tended to show positive association."

A report by the Nurses' Health Study at Harvard, involving 1,000 nurses and published in 2002 in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, concluded: "The results raise the possibility that milk consumption could influence cancer risk by a mechanism involving IGF-1."

The lead researcher, Dr. Michelle D. Holmes of Harvard Medical School, said the work was based on blood drawn before rbGH was used, adding: "If we were to repeat such a study now, with people drinking milk with rbGH, would be see something different? It might be a bigger problem. It would be interesting and important to find out."

In 2000, the F.D.A. said that the agency "continues to maintain that levels of IGF-1, whether or not from rbGH supplemented cows, are not significant when evaluated against levels of IGF-1 endogenously produced and present in humans."

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