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france's government on wednesday asked a health watchdog to carry out a probe, possibly leading to eu suspension of a genetically-modified corn, after a study in rats linked the grain to cancer.
法国政府本周三要求健康监管机构开展针对转基因玉米的一项调查,这有可能导致欧盟暂停进口这种转基因玉米。此前一项研究表明,转基因玉米会使实验鼠患上肿瘤。
agriculture minister stephane le foll, ecology minister delphine batho and health and social affairs minister marisol touraine said they had asked the national agency for health safety (anses) to investigate the finding.
"depending on anses' opinion, the government will urge the european authorities to take all necessary measures to protect human and animal health," they said in a 1 statement.
earlier, french scientists led by gilles-eric seralini at the university of caen in normandy unveiled a study that said rats fed with nk603 corn or exposed to the weedkiller used with it developed 2.
nk603 is a corn, also called 3, made by us agribusiness(农业综合企业) giant monsanto. it has been engineered to make it 4 to monsanto's herbicide roundup.
the study, published in the peer-reviewed journal food and chemical toxicology, says it is the first to look at rats over their normal lifespan of two years.
two hundred male and female rats were split into 10 groups of 10 animals. one was a "control" group which was given ordinary rat food that contained 33 percent non-gm corn, and plain water.
three groups were given ordinary rat food and water with increasing doses of roundup, reflecting various concentrations of the herbicide in the food chain.
the other six were fed rat food of which 11, 22 or 33 percent comprised nk603 corn, either treated or not with roundup when the corn was grown.
the researchers found that nk603 and roundup both caused similar damage to the rats' health, whether they were consumed together or on their own.
7 deaths and sickness were concentrated especially among females. males which fell sick suffered liver damage, developed kidney and skin tumours and digestive problems.
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