Lettre de soutien au professeur Gilles-Eric Séralini et ses collègues / Support Letter to Gilles-Eric Séralini and his colleagues

mercredi 5 mai 2010
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Pétition de soutien à Gilles-Eric Séralini / Support to Gilles-Eric Séralini

mercredi 5 mai 2010
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Pour le respect de la controverse scientifique et de l’expertise contradictoire.

Plus de 1100 chercheurs et médecins de 30 pays ont déjà signé l’appel. La liste des 300 premiers signataires est disponible ici et les suivants (en constante augmentation) sont disponibles au bas de cette page.

In respect of scientific controversy and contradictory expertise.

More than 1100 researchers and doctors from 30 countries already signed. The list presenting the first 300 signatories is available here and the next signatories (the list is still growing) are available below. Lire le reste de cet article »

The French salt industry in court

lundi 27 avril 2009
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Abstract :  In 2008, the French salt industry lost a high-profile libel case brought by its agent the Comité des Salines de France against Pierre Meneton, a medical research worker. In 2002, and in 2004, France’s Food Safety Agency and National Academy of Medicine recommended that the population’s salt intake be reduced in line with worldwide dietary guidelines that had been evolving for more than 50 years.2,3 The Comité subsequently seemed to focus much of its argument against this recommendation towards Pierre Meneton, of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, who was trying to implement national recommendations for dietary salt intake.

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BANG – a NGO meeting on emerging technologies in 2008

mardi 4 novembre 2008
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In June 2008, four NGOs – ETC Group from Canada, Bede (Biodiversité – échange et diffusion d’expériences) and Fondation Sciences Citoyennes from France and the What Next ? Institute from Sweden invited international NGOs to participate to a common strategic meeting on emerging technologies – BANG.

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Vision for an organic food and farming research agenda to 2025

mardi 14 octobre 2008
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Research is one of the most important tools for the further development and spread of organic food and farming. It is thus important that the EU research programme provides adequate support for organic food and farming research. Organic agriculture and food production are innovative learning fields for sustainability and are therefore of special interest to European societies.

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Vision organic farming IFOAM