The second time may be the right one. Professor Seralini retires his luck after withdrawing from his study on the effects of GMO Monsanto on laboratory rats. In 2012, his study was unpublished from the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology for its contested methodology (the type of rats used was contested). Two years later, the professor of molecular biology Gilles-Eric Séralini, republished his work, but this time in the scientific journal Environmental Sciences Europe.
Remember two years ago, Professor Séralini caused an uproar in the scientific community by publishing his findings against GMOs: his team found in a test group of 200 rats that the mortality was two to three times more high in females having ingested NK603 maize, a GM maize marketed by Monsanto, and / or Roundup herbicide. Rats (regardless of gender) also had two to three times as many tumors.
Still no study on the long-term effects of GMOs
What about the 2014 version? Basically, nothing has changed. Only the form has been changed a bit. As in the first version, the new article denounces “the toxicity of [l’herbicide] Roundup and its impacts on the detoxifying organs of the body, the liver and the kidneys as well as its ability to disrupt the hormonal system at very low doses “, explains the Criigen association, of which Professor Séralini is a member, quoted by AFP .
Behind this publication looms the will to work on “scientific transparency” and to nourish discussions “which do not seek to hide, but rather to concentrate on these necessary methodological controversies”, specifies the editor of the journal.
In 2012, the European Food Safety Agency (Efsa) and the National Food Safety Agency (Anses) rejected the conclusions of the biologist’s study. But they had called for in-depth studies to be carried out on the impact of long-term consumption of GMOs. A wish that has remained a dead letter.
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