Answers to critics: Why there is a long term toxicity due to a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize and to a Roundup herbicide

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 476-483

  Séralini, Gilles Eric ^a   Mesnage, Robin ^a   Defarge, Nicolas ^a   Gress, Steeve ^a   Hennequin, Didier ^c   Clair, Emilie ^a   Malatesta, Manuela ^b   de Vendômois, Joël Spiroux ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Answers to critics; Endocrine disrupting effects; Glyphosate based herbicides; GMO; NK603; Rat; Roundup

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE;

CARCINOGENESIS; CHRONIC TOXICITY; DNA MODIFICATION; ETHICS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPOSURE; LETTER; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT GENETICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; MALE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84883011372     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.11.007     Document Type: Letter

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