A rebuttal regarding the article "Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize" (published in Food & Chemical Toxicology Volume 50, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 4221-4231).
A four-member team of Jamaican scientists working at the Interna-tional Centre for Environment and Nuclear Sciences (ICENS), University of the West Indies, Mona, has had its groundbreaking research on the lionfish published in Food and Chemical Toxicology, one of the world's leading platforms for high-quality, peer-reviewed, full-text scientific journals.
In November 2012, this journal published an article titled “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize,” by Séralini et al.(Séralini et al., 2012). The publication of this article caused quite a stir in the media, as well as in the scientific community. The journal received many letters expressing concerns about the validity of the findings. A careful and time-consuming analysis found that the data were inconclusive, and therefore the conclusions described in the article were unreliable. Accordingly, the article was retracted. Since the public announcement of the retraction, the journal has received many letters to the editor; a selection of these letters will be published, along with this response to those letters.
RE: Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize