There's "no scientific evidence" in the Academy's argument, says scientists' network ENSSER
ENSSER (the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility) has published a statement critiquing a declaration by the Slovak Academy of Science (SAS) in support of the deregulation of new GM techniques (NGTs) in the EU.
ENSSER says the SAS statement "ascribes a series of benefits to New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), but does not provide any scientific evidence to support this. Furthermore, the SAS ignores the substantial risks of these techniques that have been reported in the scientific literature. These risks arise from the experimentally validated fact that NGT procedures as a whole are highly DNA-damaging and not as precise and predictable as is claimed, and neither are their outcomes. The existing scientific evidence provides no support for the NGT Regulation [the new law that deregulates NGTs], but instead leads to the conclusion that it should be withdrawn and proper risk assessment and labelling should be put back in place."
ENSSER's detailed and fully referenced statement is here.
