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A scientific study suggesting genetically modified food killed rats has been suppressed because of lobbying by multinational biotech corporations, environmental campaigners claim. (more…)

The most detailed scientific study ever conducted on the health effects of a genetically modified (GM) food was published last year. The findings of the study, led by Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini at the University of Caen in France, were
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued guidelines for two-year whole food feeding studies to assess the risk of long-term toxicity from GM foods.

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3347.htm (more…)

On Friday, July 12, the research department of the General Commission for Sustainable Development (CGDD) Department of Ecology issued a call for the establishment of a consortium under the research program Risk’OGM, a national research program on the environmental
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In spite of concerted attempts to denigrate and misrepresent the 2012 study of Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini on NK603 maize, it’s good to see that the EU has drawn the sensible lesson from the study and has issued a call
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More than two years on from the disaster of March 11, 2011, debate continues in the mainstream and social media about the uses of fear to advance agendas. Much of the debate is centered on the environmental crisis surrounding
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The fact that two French scientists, respected the world over for their studies on the effects of the herbicide Roundup, are giving a speech together in the Roc’h Tredudon restaurant in Plouneour-Menez is no small thing. For the local
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Let me start by putting my GM cards on the table. Although this might come as a surprise, I did not start out with an ideological opposition to Genetically Modified Crops. I have always been open minded about new technologies
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At a meeting of the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee on 27th May 2013, MEPs maintained their assault on EFSA and DG-SANCO (the Commission’s Directorate for Health and Consumers) and decided to keep two Petitions from Dr Brian John alive
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The obstructive response of the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) scientific committee (below) to the request of the European Commission that it help with the design of long-term carcinogenicity tests on GM feed is shameful. (more…)