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Engineered maize toxicity claims roundly rebuffed

By Andy Coghlan

20 January 2010

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Modified maize raises fears

(Image: Michael Kappeler/DDP/Getty)

MONSANTO, the giant of genetically modified crops, has for the first time been forced to release raw data from toxicology studies it carried out on three strains of its modified maize. An external analysis of the data claims it shows that eating the maize could result in damage to the liver and kidneys, but this has been dismissed as unsupportable by a government agency and independent toxicologists.

With legal help from Greenpeace and the Swedish Board of Agriculture, researchers at the , a French anti-GM…

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