Laboratory Rodent Diets Contain Toxic Levels of Environmental Contaminants: Implications for Regulatory Tests

Robin Mesnage; Nicolas Defarge; Louis-Marie Rocque; Joël Spiroux de Vendômois; Gilles-Eric Séralini

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128429

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Laboratory Rodent Diets Contain Toxic Levels of Environmental Contaminants: Implications for Regulatory Tests

Robin Mesnage ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Robin Mesnage, Nicolas Defarge

Current address: Gene Expression and Therapy Group, King’s College London, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, 8th Floor, Tower Wing, Guy’s Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom

Affiliations University of Caen, Institute of Biology, EA2608 and Network on Risks, Quality and Sustainable Environment MRSH, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032 Caen Cedex, France, CRIIGEN, 40 rue Monceau, 75008, Paris, France
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Nicolas Defarge ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Robin Mesnage, Nicolas Defarge

Affiliations University of Caen, Institute of Biology, EA2608 and Network on Risks, Quality and Sustainable Environment MRSH, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032 Caen Cedex, France, CRIIGEN, 40 rue Monceau, 75008, Paris, France
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Louis-Marie Rocque,

Affiliation CRIIGEN, 40 rue Monceau, 75008, Paris, France
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Joël Spiroux de Vendômois,

Affiliation CRIIGEN, 40 rue Monceau, 75008, Paris, France
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Gilles-Eric Séralini

* E-mail: gilles-eric.seralini@unicaen.fr

Affiliations University of Caen, Institute of Biology, EA2608 and Network on Risks, Quality and Sustainable Environment MRSH, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032 Caen Cedex, France, CRIIGEN, 40 rue Monceau, 75008, Paris, France
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Laboratory Rodent Diets Contain Toxic Levels of Environmental Contaminants: Implications for Regulatory Tests

Robin Mesnage,
Nicolas Defarge,
Louis-Marie Rocque,
Joël Spiroux de Vendômois,
Gilles-Eric Séralini

Published: July 2, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128429

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Data access and response from regulatory agency

Posted by MaryM on 08 Oct 2015 at 15:05 GMT

In apparent violation of PLOS policy, the authors of this paper refuse to provide the data underlying the claims for this work.

This work has also been used in an attempt to influence regulatory policy from government agencies. However, citing many flaws of the work, including incomplete reporting of the data, regulators have dismissed the claims made.

See: http://www.efsa.europa.eu...

Competing interests declared: I blog about science topics, and may have been critical of Séralini group work in the past. I own some index funds in my retirement accounts, which might contain companies in the index associated with some of the compounds or plants tested. I really haven't looked, I just buy the indexes every so often. I have done writing for an educational company (OpenHelix, my company and employer). I had a membership in The Nature Conservancy. Well, they called me a member, but I just gave them donations. I have a bottle of RoundUp in my basement and I'm not afraid of it.

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