Lobbyists for genetically-modified crops are influencing the media, according to French researcher Gilles-Eric Séralini. <br /><br />Séralini’s study showing negative effects of GM maize fed to rats, including tumours, will be retracted by the journal that published it last year. Séralini has received a letter from Elsevier’s Food and Toxicology journal.<br /><br />A new editor at the journal, Richard Goodman, is a biologist who formerly worked for Monsanto – the leading producer of GM foods.<br /><br />“If this magazine, which just hired a former Monsanto employee as an editor, withdraws this study, it’ll mean it never existed. What we have tried to do, to try and carry out studies of the long-term effects of genetically-modified foods and pesticides on human health, will be permanently shut off,” said French MEP Corinne Lepage.<br /><br />At the European level, GM crops are generally tested for no more than three months by the manufacturers who produce them. These studies are used to authorise the products. <br /><br />For Séralini
