The conference tour in Australia and Phillipines of Prof. Gilles-Eric Séralini and Chef Jérôme Douzelet (see pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/79123951@N07/sets/72157629830513273/ ) was appreciated and acknowledeged in the Universities of Sydney, Canberra, Adelaïde, Perth, and Los Banos (next to Manilla), and in front of the public or cooks in Sydney, Perth, Margaret River, Manilla. Several radio or press interviews were performed together with meetings with politicians. A contradictory debate in the ABC australian radio with the Chief Scientist of FSANZ (the Australian and New Zealand regulatory authority for GMOs) is available (see link http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/are-gmos-safe3f/3858030).

The conferences were in particular on the poor assessments and the risks of transgenic wheat and brinjal requested for cultures over there. 

Criticisms were numerous since big economical issues are the goal for biotech companies. These criticisms are not surprisingly those already made by biotech companies and their defenders already convicted of defamation against Prof. Séralini. These pseudo-scientific judge details regularly of his resume, awards, but do not bother read his scientific international peer-reviewed studies that support the purpose of his lectures. These are available upon request at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The food and health agencies like FSANZ in Australia or FDA in the United States, or EFSA in Europe, where these lobbies stand as demonstrated by numerous journalists, only publish opinions on websites. This is not enough to reach the international scientific community that, by contrast, congratulates Prof. Séralini on a regular basis. However these so-called independent agencies wait for health scandals to react and proofs by deaths (3000 for the Mediator drug authorized by this kind of agencies). Then, they can to some extent take evidence into account and alerts that often so against the business interests that they seem to serve.

On another hand more than 1200 researchers from 30 countries have defended science transparency and scientific controversies in the defamation trial won by Prof. Séralini in the Court affair that opposed him to M. Fellous, who lost the case.