The Environmental Risk of Genetically-Modified Organisms...

The Environmental Risk of GMO In November 2012, Food and Chemical Toxicology published a controversial study by Gilles-Eric Seralini, Emilie Clair, Robin Mesnage, et al., entitled Long Term Toxicity of a Roundup Herbicide and a Roundup-Tolerant Genetically Modified Maize. The study purported to show the genetically-modified organisms like corn have alarmingly deadly side effects. Five months later in March 2013, the same journal published Comments on Long Term Toxicity of a Roundup Herbicide and a Roundup-Tolerant Genetically Modified Maize by Dung Le Tien and Ham Le Huy. The Comments essentially took the form of a letter to the editor of the journal, Dr. Wallace Hayes, and called for immediate action regarding the study of Seralini et al (Tien, Huy, 2013, p. 443). 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