Thank God it’s Friday! Quick news from the food world (Week 45)

Posted on by Cesare Varallo

Here's my article selection of the week: EU - Environment Committee backs flexibility for EU countries to ban GMO crops, from European Parliament ENVI Committee: long-awaited draft plans to allow EU member states to restrict, or ban, the cultivation of crops containing genetically modified organisms on their own territory even if it is allowed at EU … Continue reading Thank God it’s Friday! Quick news from the food world (Week 45)

Seralini et al. study on GMO and rat cancer withdrawn? UPDATED 2.12.13

Posted on by Cesare Varallo

The Journal Food and Chemical Toxicolgy, due to the doubts about the quality of the data submitted by Gilles Eric Seralini for his controversial study on long term effects of GMO Maize NK603 The editor of the journal, A. Wallace Hayes, has sent Seralini a letter saying that the paper will be retracted if Seralini does not … Continue reading Seralini et al. study on GMO and rat cancer withdrawn? UPDATED 2.12.13