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Last Updated: Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 23:10 GMT 00:10 UK

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Beef diet 'damages sons' sperm'

Growth promoters are banned in Europe
Scientists have produced evidence to suggest that Europe was right to ban the beef industry from using growth promoters to increase yield.
A US study has linked use of the chemicals to damage to human sperm.

The University of Rochester found men whose mothers ate a lot of beef during pregnancy had lower sperm counts.

The Human Reproduction study found they were three times more likely to have a sperm count so low they could be classified as sub-fertile.

It confirms that Europe was justified to ban the use of these hormones when they did

Dr Allan Pacey
University of Sheffield

The use of growth promoting chemicals was banned in Europe in 1988.

But although the US banned the use of some growth promoters in 1979, others, such as the sex hormones testosterone and progesterone, are still in use in the beef industry.

The Rochester team examined sperm counts among US men born between 1949 and 1983.


[Frankly, if I had access to European beef or other kinds of beef in the U.S., I wouldn't have eaten a lot of that instead. I never trusted there being proper regulation for the benefit of the public.]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6496977.stm