Food and Chemical Toxicology Editor-in-Chief, A. Wallace Hayes, Publishes Response to Letters to the Editors

Food and Chemical Toxicology Editor-in-Food and Chemical Toxicology Editor-in- Chief, A. Wallace Hayes, Publishes Response to Letters to the Editors PR Newswire CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, December 10, 2013 The following statement will be published in the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology, alongside a selection of letters to the editors regarding the decision to retract the paper by Séralini et al.(Séralini et al., 2012). In November 2012, this journal published an article titled "Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize," by Séralini et al.(Séralini et al., 2012). The publication of this article caused quite a stir in the media, as well as in the scientific community. The journal received many letters expressing concerns about the validity of the findings. A careful and time-consuming analysis found that the data were inconclusive, and therefore the conclusions described in the article were unreliable. Accordingly, the article was retracted. Since the public announcement of the retraction, the journal has received many letters to the editor; a selection of these letters will be published, along with this response to those letters.