A new report reviewing 19 studies of mammals fed with commercialized GM soybean and maize (which represent more than 80% of all GMOs grown on a large scale) indicates liver and kidney signs of toxicity in mammals fed on a GM diet. The report by Gilles-Eric Séralini et al is published in Environmental Sciences Europe (2011, 23, 10-20). 

The authors studied data from biotech companies from 90-day-long feeding tests on rats that include biochemical blood and urine parameters of mammals eating GMOs modified for herbicide tolerance and insecticide production. The tests were conducted as a result of court actions or official requests and the authors reviewed the studies in the scientific literature. 

Though the tests may not point to chronic toxicity of GMOs since the 90 day period is too short, the authors nonetheless cautioned that the signs highlighted in the kidneys and livers could spell the onset of chronic diseases: on a total of 9% of disturbed parameters, 43% are concentrated in the kidneys of the male rats. The researchers suggested that more detailed and prolonged studies should be conducted. They underlined that since no minimal length for the tests is yet compulsory for any of the GMOs cultivated on a large scale, it was socially unacceptable in terms of consumer health. 

The authors also suggested an alternative to conventional feeding trials, to understand the biological significance of statistical differences. This approach will make it possible to avoid both false negative and false positive results, in order to improve safety assessments of agricultural GMOs before their commercialization for cultivation for food and feed as well as for imports. This is the most comprehensive review on this topic to date. 

The full paper is available at: http://www.enveurope.com/content/23/1/10

CRIIGEN is filing a complaint against Marc Fellous and the AFBV for forgery and use of forgery

CRIIGEN and Prof. Gilles-Eric SERALINI have submitted a complaint to the Public Prosecutor of Paris on May 20^th 2011, for forgery and the use of forgery in relation to a document that was produced in Court by Prof. Marc FELLOUS and the AFBV (Association Française des Biotechnologies Végétales), during a trial at the end of which Marc FELLOUS was convicted of defamation against Gilles-Éric SERALINI, on January 18^th 2011. The plaintiffs are shocked by such attitudes, especially since the declarations of the AFBV defamatory letters were pretending to react to the dissemination of  “false information” and  “stretching of the rules of scientific neutrality”. 

Furthermore, during the defamation trial that was won by Prof. SERALINI, a connection was established between the AFBV and the biotechnology firms. CRIIGEN and Prof. Gilles-Eric SERALINI would like to thank very warmly the more than 1100 scientists of 35 different countries who expressed their support, as well as about 12,000 citizens, and the Fondation Sciences Citoyennes, the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility ENSSER and many other societies, foundations and organizations. These people have signed a petition in favour of a healthy and contradictory debate, beyond lies, disgraceful acts, and biased interests that tread on health and environment risk studies, mostly where agricultural GMOs and pesticides are concerned.

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TO PREVENT THE EFFECTS OF POLLUTANTS

AND TO DETOXIFY OUR CELLS: IT IS POSSIBLE ! 

Prof. Seralini's group in the University of Caen and CRIIGEN (www.criigen.org) demonstrate the negative effects of common pollutants (the herbicides Roundup or Atrazine, the plasticizer BisphenolA) on human cells. Extracts of organic plants in precise combinations are rapidly able to prevent or cure at least in part these cellular effects. These have been made by Sevene Pharma Company. This work opens the door of a new ecomedicine, which does not avoid a stronger regulation of pesticides and other pollutants.

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International meeting

 "Sustainability and holistic assessment of technologies and

biotechnologies" 

University of Caen, France, in the House of Human Sciences (MRSH)

   March 23-26, 2011

  Co-organized by: University of Caen MRSH-CNRS (www.unicaen.fr), Risk Pole (www.unicaen.fr/recherche/mrsh/risque.), CRIIGEN (www.criigen.org), ENSSER (www.ensser.org), Foundation for Citizen Sciences (www.sciencescitoyennes.org), Genok (www.genok.org), Society of Environmental Health in Western France.