Project PSx2 "Participatory Science and Scientific Participation" - January 2009 

CRIIGEN took part in an international research program financed by a European contract shared between 8 countries and 9 partners. The purpose was to better understand how society influenced or slowed down the development of GMOs in Europe, but also to suggest a stronger and more anticipated participation of society to scientific research, particularly in the field of biotechnologies and GMOs, in terms of control, transparency and objectives. CRIIGEN is delighted by the work achieved by Europe and the partners involved in this grand project, the details of which can be read in six languages below.

Toxicity of Bisphenol-A (BPA) in mammals and humans – February 2009

It seems dangerous today for human health to continue using BPA and in particular in food wrapping materials, moreover its use in the industry should be banned. The exposure of infants and children to BPA should be reduced, as quickly as possible, as they are the most sensitive persons relative to endocrine disruptors, due to their low weight, but also due to the fact they are growing. The present regulation does not sufficiently take endocrine disruptors into account to authorise and set limits in the use of a product, as what is studied is almost only acute toxicity.

Read the report

Read an article in French on the topic in the Canadian newspaper La Presse on 26 February 2009.

Where is BPA found? Meaning of the recycling codes

See the poster presented during the first international congress on environmental pathologies which took place on 9 & 10 October 2009

Reopening of the expertise work on BPA and PFOA by the new director of AFSSA.

http://www.reseau-environnement-sante.fr/ressources/mediatheque/81-communique-de-presse-16-octobre-2009--rencontre-res-afssa.html

 NEWS : Bt BRINJAL IS FORBIDDEN IN PHILIPPINES - MAY 2012

	A recent move by the Supreme Court to stop commercial  production of GM Bt eggplant in the Philippines

 was welcomed by  Greenpeace, which pointed to independent scientific studies showing  that GMOs such as Bt eggplant, 

as well as Bt corn, can negatively  impact the liver, kidneys or blood when ingested.

 http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13920     

Assessment of the Studies on Mahyco's Bt Brinjal Aubergine - January 2009

Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini assessed for the Supreme Court of India Mahyco studies on Bt brinjal who claims the release of a new GMO: Bt brinjal. He announced "this GMO may present a serious risk to humans and animals health and the release should be refused in the state." His criticism of Mahyco studies reveals clear evidence to the Indian regulator Apex (the GEAC) and the Supreme Court (see Indian press release & especially summary in the full report below).

Indian Press Release, read more

Full report (in English)

Article in Nature Oct. 2009 Answer to Nature by Prof. Séralini Nov. 2009

Minutes of the Workshop

Regulation of Transgenic Salmon

Among the first animal GMOs in the world waiting the approval to be commercialized on a wide scale, we find salmons with growth hormone genetic doping. A Franco-Québécois team from CRIIGEN and CINBIOSE has published in an American review Environmental Science & Policy a whole file on risks and guidelines for the assessment of salmons and more generally of transgenic animals. 

The research group denounces the fact that a premature commercialization includes health risks when consumption (lack of serious testing), environmental risks (reaching the biodiversity), and economical risks (no easy traceability…).

This GMOs dissemination could not be without a crucial respect of environment, at the time of a deep biodiversity crisis. When some regulatory organizations (EFSA, FDA…) request insufficiently rigorous toxicity tests on GMOs (not more than one or three months of consumption by mammals before authorizations), this multidisciplinary research insists on the introduction of health, environmental and socio-economic criteria, which should be produced within a rigorous and independent scientific and social assessment of what is becoming a possible deep transformation of world agriculture and aquaculture.

For the moment, these criteria are far from being followed.This peer-reviewed article is the result of research directed by Pr. Louise Vandelac and financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This research was supported also by CRIIGEN and by CINBIOSE.