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NEW ! Our review article is published

Assessment of the Health Impact of GM Plant Diets in Long-Term and Multigenerational Animal Feeding Trials: a Literature Review,

by Chelsea Snell, Aude Bernheim,  Jean-Baptiste Bergé,  Marcel Kuntz, Gérard Pascal,  Alain Paris,  Agnes Ricroch,

Food and Chemical Toxicology.     Download here.

Results

Contrary to frequently heard allegations, our article shows that long term animal feeding studies examining food safety of GMOs have actually been performed. 

These studies concern GM lines of maize, potato, soybean, rice and triticale and are of two types:

12 long term toxicological studies, where feeding time exceeds well over (up to 2 years) that of the 90 day studies classically used in toxicological studies applied to GMOs,

12 studies whose duration extended over several generations of animals.

Conclusions 

These studies by public research laboratories do not reveal any safety problem linked to long term consumption of GMO-derived food.

They confirm what has always been said by toxicologists, namely that if long term subchronic toxicity tests are considered to be necessary, increasing animal feeding duration beyond 90 days does not provide any additional information.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

                                                                George Orwell

Today there is no scientific space left for fear about a food safety risk inherently linked to the « genetically modified » nature of varieties marketed after the currently performed risk assessment.

GM risk assessment is based on a comparative method with conventional varieties recognized as safe. It involves several levels of examination, from the laboratory to the field. The reglementary assessment (according to international standards), and in particular the toxicological studies, being only the last step of a step-by-step and case-by-case process.

These conclusions are confirmed by different approaches

In a previous scientific article, we surveyed 44 publications on large scale profiling of GMOs. These novel analytical techniques aim to visualize the expression of all genes, all proteins and all small chemical compounds (metabolites) in a given organism.  

-none of these publications concluded to a health hazard linked to marketed GMO food.  

-transgenic plant breeding has less impact on plants than the genetic variation generated in existing varieties by conventional breeding.

-natural environmental changes (between two distant fields, for example) usually have a larger impact on plants than transgenesis.