An overview of the last 10 years of genetically engineered crop safety research

Critical Reviews in Biotechnology (2013-09-13) Alessandro Nicolia, Alberto Manzo, Fabio Veronesi, and Daniele Rosellini

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Many deceptive Pro GMO news articles claim that 2000+ studies show that GMOs are "safe". The attached spreadsheet is the actual list of documents.

• Ge-crops-safety-pub-list-1.xls: List of the documents in the 1700+ review.

Actually, there are only 1787 studies actually cited, in the following categories:

Category	Starting at Record #	Number of Documents	Comments
General	2	167	Marketing research, comments, consumer surveys, etc. no hard science
Biodiversity	169	580	Essentially research on how well these crops against various threats, etc. No safety studies
Gf-Coexistence	749	96	How well the genes stay to themselves without flowing to other varieties.
Gf-Wild Relatives	845	113	Gene flow to wild relatives
Gf-HGT Soil	958	59	Gene flow to soil
Non-target assessment	1017	107	Opinions and discussion of approaches to assessment of risks
Equivalence	1124	46	Compositional analysis, methods of statistical analysis
Consumption	1170	312	Livestock consumption studies, opinions on how to conduct, very few actual studies (~60 with abstracts?) that can be related to human consumption studies. The longest studies cited are 90-day studies on rodents, which are the longest toxicological tests that the industry generally carries out.
Traceability	1483	617	How to detect GMO varieties, etc.

Most (more than 1600) have nothing to do with safety, but are dealing with agronomics, gene flow, biodiversity, opinion pieces, customer or farmer opinion surveys. Only a very few are scientific research into safety, and non are long-term studies.

• The following document reviews this paper: 2.3 Myth: The Nicolia review compiles 1700+ studies showing that GMOs are safe
• Another review: GMO "Safety Assurance" Studies - first there were 60, and then there were 3

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