Paper claiming that GM Bt176 maize was 'most probably' toxic to animals 'disappeared' from online journal after only one day
A paper by the research biologist G.E.Seralini and co-authored by a German dairy farmer, Gottfried Glockner, suggests that the GM maize variety Bt176, which has since been withdrawn from the market, had serious adverse impacts on the health of cattle when it was fed to them in a long-term study.The paper was published in the Scholarly Journal of Agricultural Sciences, and was presented at a press conference on 26 January. However, by 27 January the online link to the journal article was broken. When contacted by Food Navigator, which reported the story, Glockner said he did not know why the paper had vanished. (It can be read on the GM Watch website here.) Seralini has encounterd controversy before, when he reported research showing a link between GM diets and cancer in rats: the study was published, withdrawn and then republished.
Published Friday 29 January 2016
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