Monsanto Hid Study That Showed Gm Potatoes Harmed Rats, Campaigners Claim

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One of the world's leading biotechnology companies has been accused of suppressing a study of genetically modified potatoes that showed they damaged the internal organs of rats. Campaign group GM Free Cymru said research into Monsanto GM NewLeaf potatoes by the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences only emerged after a lengthy legal battle.

It was delivered to the company in 1998, the same year that the variety was deregulated in the United States and at the same time as research by Arpad Pusztai in the Rowett Institute reached a similar conclusion. Dr Pusztai was vilified and his research funding stopped by the UK Government.

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Monsanto Hid Study That Showed Gm Potatoes Harmed Rats, Campaigners Claim

Dr Brian John of GM Free Cymru said the study only came to light this month after a protracted leg...

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