date:Sep 20, 2012
Food safety watchdog the Food Standards Agency (FSA) needs more time to study controversial research linking Monsantos herbicide Roundup and genetically modified (GM) maize with premature death, its spokesman told FoodManufacture.co.uk today.
The study claimed that rats exposed to the weedkiller Roundup (glyphosate) and/or its Round-up resistant maize, NK603, developed mammary tumours and liver and kidney damage.
The researchers said 50% of males and 70% of females died prematurely, compared w