By: Gmhealthriskweek.org, 08/09/2013
Claire Robinson is editor of GMOSeralini.org, a public information website to counter misleading spin about the Séralini study. She is an editor at GMWatch and research director at Earth Open Source.
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 shocking. Rats fed over a two-year period with two Monsanto products, a GM maize and tiny amounts of the Roundup herbicide that the maize is engineered to tolerate being sprayed with, had increased rates of severe organ damage, tumours, and premature death.
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