Biotech Values

[DewDiligence]

MON—Food and Chemical Toxicology has retracted an article it published last year that claimed an association between Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide and cancer risk in rats:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/29/health/paper-tying-rat-cancer-to-herbicide-is-retracted.html

The editor of the journal…said in a letter to the paper’s main author that the study’s results, while not incorrect or fraudulent, were “inconclusive, and therefore do not reach the threshold of publication.”

The paper, published 14 months ago, has been cited by opponents of biotech foods and proponents of labeling such foods. But it has been vociferously criticized as flawed, sensationalistic and possibly even fraudulent by many scientists…