Erio Barale-Thomas
Erio Barale-Thomas is a toxicologist. He is president of the Administrative Council of the Société Française de Pathologie Toxicologique (SFPT, French Society of Toxicological Pathology). Barale-Thomas describes the SFPT as "a non governmental/non profit organization formed by veterinarians, physicians, pharmacists and biologists specialized in veterinary and toxicologic pathology".[1]
It was as spokesperson for this nonprofit organisation that he wrote a letter to the editor of the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, condemning "weaknesses" and "deficiencies" in the paper of Prof G. E. Séralini (2012), published in September 2012 in the same journal.[2]
Séralini's study had found severe organ damage, increased tumours and premature mortality in rats fed the commercialised genetically modified (GM) maize NK603, developed by Monsanto, and its associated herbicide Roundup.[3]
In his letter, Barale-Thomas takes Seralini to task for failure to declare a conflict of interest in his paper, namely the fact that Seralini is president of CRIIGEN, the publicly funded research group based at the University of Caen, France, which contributed funding to the research - a fact that was declared in the paper.
However, in his letter condemning Seralini, Barale-Thomas seems to have been less than open about his own conflicts of interest. He gives his affiliation in the letter only as president of the SFPT.
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- ↑ Barale-Thomas, E. (2012) Letter to the editor, Food and Chemical Toxicology. Available online 16 November 2012, acc 29 Nov 2012
- ↑ Barale-Thomas, E. (2012). Letter to the editor. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 16 Nov.
- ↑ Séralini, G. E., E. Clair, et al. (2012). Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize. Food and Chemical Toxicology 50(11): 4221-4231.
