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firma di Monsanto sul documento che autorizza il glifosato in UE

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(Rinnovabili.it) – Il parere dell’Agenzia europea per la sicurezza alimentare (EFSA) in base al quale il glifosato oggi è ancora legale, è fondato su una relazione scritta dalla Monsanto. La rivelazione sconvolgente è frutto di una indagine condotta da EU Observer e One World, che hanno seguito le tracce dei documenti chiave sui quali è stata costruita la procedura di riautorizzazione dell’erbicida prodotto dalla multinazionale più odiata del mondo.

Le prove dello scandalo sono state recuperate in diversi continenti: da un tribunale statunitense vengono centinaia di e-mail interne della Monsanto, che mostrano il coinvolgimento della multinazionale in almeno due relazioni accademiche sul glifosato nel 2013, su cui esperti in conflitto di interessi hanno poi messo soltanto la firma. Entrambi gli studi sono stati poi utilizzati, insieme ad altri, come base probatoria dall’EFSA, per dare all’erbicida la classificazione di sostanza “probabilmente non cancerogena”.

Era il 2015, e la IARC, Agenzia per la ricerca sul cancro dell’Organizzazione mondiale della sanità, aveva da poco dato un parere di segno opposto. Secondo l’EFSA, però, il glifosato non è genotossico, il che significa che non causa danni al DNA nelle cellule viventi e quindi non ha effetti cancerogeni.

>> Leggi anche: I conflitti di interessi intorno al glifosato <<

Oggi sappiamo che dietro questa opinione c’era la stessa azienda che commercia la sostanza. Ma i giornalisti delle due testate autrici dello scoop sono andati ancora più a fondo. Hanno fatto emergere la dubbia terzietà del BfR, l’istituto tedesco per la valutazione del rischio che scrive i documenti sulla pericolosità dei pesticidi utilizzati dall’EFSA per le relazioni che accompagnano l’autorizzazione di una sostanza nell’Unione Europea.

glifosato È questo il vero nodo del processo: l’istituto tedesco è stato scelto direttamente dall’industria – lo consente una legge europea – e durante la fase di analisi della letteratura scientifica sul contestato erbicida ha dialogato con la Glyphosate Task Force (GTF), una associazione di imprese dell’agroindustria e della chimica capeggiata dalla stessa Monsanto. In particolare, il testo del documento che ha permesso all’EFSA di dare luce verde al glifosato, è scritto dalla GTF, con una conclusione a cura del BfR.

Durante la redazione del documento chiave, sono spariti dalla letteratura tre studi epidemiologici che mostrano un incremento del linfoma non-Hodgkin negli agricoltori, considerati invece come prove chiave dall’Organizzazione mondiale della sanità. Licenziati dall’industria come «non affidabili» e «non significativi», sono stati insabbiati con il beneplacito dell’Istituto tedesco per la valutazione del rischio.

Nel frattempo, Monsanto si trova ad affrontare circa 225 cause legali presso il tribunale di San Francisco. I querelanti sono in gran parte agricoltori convinti che il loro linfoma non-Hodgkin non sia uno scherzo del fato.

>> Leggi anche: Un milione di firme per bandire il glifosato dall’Europa <<

Nonostante il BfR non abbia pubblicato i nomi dei ricercatori che hanno avallato la relazione della Glyphosate Task Force, almeno un nome è venuto fuori: a dirigere il dipartimento sulla sicurezza dei pesticidi dell’istituto è il dottor Roland Solecki, già coinvolto nella prima autorizzazione del glifosato 15 anni fa.

La sua firma, secondo le indagini della ONG tedesca BUND, compare in calce ad un articolo scientifico del 2006, che invocava una maggior flessibilità nell’autorizzazione europea di erbicidi e pesticidi. Lo studio è stato pagato dall’ILSI, un istituto finanziato dalle più grandi imprese agroalimentari del mondo, tra le quali Monsanto.

Autore: redattore Rinnovabili

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Economia

Setup e Angoli di Gann: FTSE MIB INDEX 4 Maggio 2017

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HardwareSoftware

Seagate Ships 35th Millionth SMR HDD, Confirms HAMR-Based Drives in Late 2018

Seagate last week made two rather important announcements regarding its current and upcoming hard drives. First, the company said that it had shipped 35 million HDDs based on shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. Second, the manufacturer confirmed plans to launch commercial hard drives based on its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology by the end of 2018, the first time the company set a precise launch timeframe for such HDDs.

35 Million and Counting

Seagate launched the Archive 8 TB, its first HDD based on SMR, in 2013. Due to the technology, it targeted archive applications – the majority of the archival workload is sequential writes, and the data is hardly ever updated, concealing peculiarities of shingled magnetic recording. As reported multiple times, to increase areal density, HDDs featuring SMR write new magnetic tracks that overlap part of the previously written tracks. This may slow down the rewriting process since the architecture requires hard drives to rewrite adjacent tracks after any writing action. To mitigate such peculiarities, Seagate incorporated various features into its device-managed SMR-based drives, which were described by Mark Re (CTO of Seagate) in an interview last year. Over the course of the recent years, Seagate has introduced several generations of SMR-based drives for archive, nearline, NAS, surveillance and mobile PC applications. Each generation refined the use of shingled magnetic recording technology in a bid to improve performance (for example, Seagate added SLC NAND-based cache to its 2.5” SMR drives) as well as improving areal density.

During a recent call with investors and financial analysts, Stephen Luczo, CEO of Seagate, said that the company had shipped 35 million SMR-based hard drives and was about to launch its fourth generation of SMR-based HDDs. The head of the company did not elaborate on the benefits of the fourth-gen SMR, but Seagate has indicated that its platform is expandable for performance and areal density benefits. In fact, we already know from Western Digital’s announcement of a 14 TB HDD that the upcoming new-gen 3.5” SMR platters have a capacity of 1.75 GB per platter, so we expect Seagate to deal with disks of around the same areal density/capacity.

“We are successfully refreshing a number of products in our portfolio, utilizing our fourth generation SMR technology,” said Mr. Luczo. “To-date, we have sold over 35 million HDDs into the nearline client and consumer markets with this technology.”

What is noteworthy is that shipments of SMR-based drives are accelerating as Seagate expands use of the technology. Seagate shipped around four million of SMR HDDs in the first two years (from September 2013 to September 2015) and then shipments of SMR HDDs have comparatively skyrocketed over the past six quarters.

The main reason why Seagate has managed to accelerate sales of its SMR drives significantly in a short period of time is because such HDDs are contained and managed in isolation, but also because they are drop-in compatible with existing data center and client infrastructure where these drives make sense the most. That being said, we suspect that certain large customers of Seagate still adjust their software before deploying such drives, eliminating unnecessary writes and thus optimizing performance and power consumption by another step from regular testing. To put Seagate’s position into context, SMR-based HDDs from HGST are managed by hosts, which requires tangible investments from their customers. Even though the Ultrastar Ha-series is strictly aimed at clients who primarily appreciate raw capacities and relatively low power consumption (a feature of helium-filled HDDs), the integration issue is not such a big problem for Western Digital as the company still ships many high-margin products. Still, device-managed SMR expertise helps Seagate to address certain market segments with products that have no direct rivals. For example, the Seagate BarraCuda 2 TB HDD and the Seagate FireCuda 2 TB hybrid HDD have no direct competitors in the 2.5”/7mm segment.

One of Seagate’s targets going forward is to make products that do not compete against SSDs directly:

“By this time next year, we anticipate less than 10% of our HDD technology portfolio will be exposed to competing flash devices,” said Mr. Luczo.

HAMR-Based HDDs Due in Late 2018

While it is inevitable that client HDDs will continue to compete with client SSDs, high-end special-purpose drives are going to complement what is available with NAND flash. High-capacity HDDs based on HAMR technology are not going to have direct flash-based rivals of the same price and capacity, therefore, it is important for Seagate to launch such drives sooner rather than later. During the conference call, Seagate indicated that HAMR-based HDDs are set to be released commercially in late calendar 2018.

“From an R&D technology perspective, we continue to invest in our next-generation areal density HAMR technology,” said Mr. Luczo. “With products on the roadmap for the late 2018 calendar year, we believe we are leading the market in developing and bringing to market this important cost-benefit solution for mass storage capacity needs.”

This is not the first time that Seagate has made a HAMR-related announcement, but this is the first time when the company has set a particular launch timeframe for such drives. Previously, Seagate has implied that the first HAMR-based HDDs would feature a capacity of 16 TB, which is a significant increase from 12 TB hard drives due to be released in the coming weeks. Given the fact that data centers cry out for high-capacity drives, it is inevitable that HAMR-based HDDs with increased performance and higher capacities will be in high demand. Keeping in mind that late 2018 (by “late” companies usually mean the fourth quarter) is over a year away, Seagate is not sharing details about experimental deployments of HAMR-based HDDs that may be planned for 2017/early 2018.

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Autore: Anton Shilov AnandTech

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Digital Audio

Lateral Cut Groove – Execpt // Northern Lights Music

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Cocodrills – Secret Universe (Extended Mix)


Listen or download: https://SUB355.lnk.to/SUYA A deluge of fast-paced beats and astronomical amounts of energy, ‘Secret Universe’ is what Miami-based duo Cocodrills drops onto Erick Morillo’s legendary Subliminal label. Fueled by the driving vocals and snappy synth stabs, this record is the star of any party.