Journal
TRANSGENIC RESEARCH
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 255-267Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-013-9692-9
Keywords
Safety assessment; GM crops; Toxicity; GM maize
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Funding
- MICINN, Spain [BFU2007-61413, BIO2011-23324, BIO02011-22525, PIM2010PKB-00746]
- European Union Framework 7 Program-SmartCell Integrated Project [222716]
- European Union Framework 7 European Research Council IDEAS Advanced Grant Program-BIOFORCE
- COST Action [FA0804]
- Centre CONSOLIDER on Agrigenomics
- MICINN, Spain
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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A recent paper published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology presents the results of a long-term toxicity study related to a widely-used commercial herbicide (Roundup (TM)) and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified variety of maize, concluding that both the herbicide and the maize varieties are toxic. Here we discuss the many errors and inaccuracies in the published article resulting in highly misleading conclusions, whose publication in the scientific literature and in the wider media has caused damage to the credibility of science and researchers in the field. We and many others have criticized the study, and in particular the manner in which the experiments were planned, implemented, analyzed, interpreted and communicated. The study appeared to sweep aside all known benchmarks of scientific good practice and, more importantly, to ignore the minimal standards of scientific and ethical conduct in particular concerning the humane treatment of experimental animals.
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