Signatures on the open letter to Governments concerning withdrawal of GE foods.

Last updated on August 16, 2000

The open letter signed as below is found at: http://www.psrast.org/psrlet.htm.

Although a majority (over 130) of the signatories have a background in bioscience including medicine, representatives of other scientific fields have also signed. The reason is that this is not just a technical matter of food safety assessment. It is a matter of principle of general societal importance. This is because a criterion without any scientific basis (Substantial Equivalence) has been applied as decicive factor in the approval of a new category foods, the safety of which is very incompletely known. This represents an unaccepable attempt to bypass sound science in a question of vital importance for public health at a global scale.

For administrative reasons, this signature record is presented here in tabular form.

Number of signatures: 206

Scientists

Oscar B.	Zamora	PhD	Professor	Agronomy	University of the Philippines at Los Banos	College, Laguna	Philippines
Arpad	Pusztai		Professor	Biochemistry	Retired, formerly at Rowett Institute	Aberdeen	United Kingdom
John H.	Vandermeer	PhD	Professor	Biology, ecology	Department of Biology, University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI	United States of America
Stuart A.	Newman	Ph.D.	Professor	Developmental biology	Dept. of Cell Ciology and Anatomy, New York Medical College	Valhalla, New York	United States of America	Board Member, Council for Responsible Genetics, Cambridge, MA
Philip J.	Regal	PhD	Professor	Ecology	Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota	St. Paul	USA
Drasko	Serman	PhD	Professor	Ecology	University of Zagreb Medical School, Dept Biology	Zagreb	Croat/Hrvatsk	Croatian Man and Biosphere Committee, UNESCO South Eastern Mediterranean Sea Project, UNESCO Commission on Education and Communication, IUCN European Committee on Environmental Edu, IUCN
Murray H.	Colbo	PhD	Professor	Ecology	Dept. of Biology, Memorial University	St. John's	Canada
John D.	Jacobs	PhD	Professor	Environmental Science	Dept. of Geography and Graduate Program in Environmetnal Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland	St. John's	Canada
Alberto R.	Miranda		Professor	Enviromental Educatios	Public Education Secretary	Cuernavaca	Mexico
Iuri	Blanco	PhD	Professor	Genetics	UFRGS, HCPA	Porto Alegre	Brazil
Dick	Richardson	Ph.D.	Professor	Integrative Biology	University of Texas	Austin	USA
Evert N.	Gummesson	Ph.D.	Professor, Research director	Management	Stockholm University	Stockholm	Sweden
Liebe F.	Cavalieri	PhD	Professor	Mathematical ecology	Purchase College/SUNY Dept Natural Sciences	Purchase,NY	United States of America
Patricia C	Kenschaft	Ph.D.	Professor	Mathematics	Montclair State University	New Jersey	United States of America
Ivy L.	Bourgeault	PhD	Professor	Medical Sociology	Dept. of Sociology University of Western Ontario	London	Canada
Victor John	Norris	PhD	Professor	Microbiology	University of Rouen	Mont-Saint-Aignan	France
Jonathan	King	PhD	Professor	Molecular Biology	Massachusetts Institute of Tehcnology (MIT) Dept. of biology	Cambridge	United States of America
Gilles-Eric	Seralini	PhD,Hab.Dir.Rech.	Professor	Molecular biology	University of Caen	Caen	France	Member of the governmental Commission du Genie Biomoléculaire, France. Member of the governmental commission Comité provisoire de Biovigilance. President of the Scientific Council of CRII-GEN
Bob E. R Orskov	Orskov	PhD DSc	Honorary Professor of Aberdeen University	Animal Nutrition		Aberdeen	United Kingdom	Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE Officer of order of British Empire OBE Fellow of Polish Academy of Science
Samuel S.	Epstein	M.D.	Professor	Pathology, Cancer cause & prevention, Public Health Policy	University of Illinois School of Public Health	Chicago	United States of America
Richard M	Wolfson	PhD	Professor	Physics	Maharishi Vedic College	Ottawa	Canada
Bert R.	Christie	Ph.D.	Adjunct Professor________	Plant Breeding_____________	Research scientist at Agriculture and AgriFood Canada___	Charlottetown	Canada	Can. Society of Agronomy__________________________
Marijan	Jost	PhD	Professor	Plant Breeding and Seed Production	Agricultural College Krizevci	Krizevci	Croatia/Hrvatsk
Rita	Alicchio	M.D.	Professor	Plant Genetics	Department of Biology, University of Bologna	Bologna	Italy
Ralph C	Martin	PhD	Professor	Plant Science	Plant Science Department, Nova Scotia Agricultural College	Truro, N.S.	Canada
Ronald	Labonte	PhD	Professor	Population Health	Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan	Saskatoon	Canada	Director, Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluation and Research Unit, Universities of Saskatchewan and Regina, Canada
Jack R.	Kloppenburg	Ph.D.	Professor	Sociology	Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin	Madison	United States of America
F.Pura	Duart Soler	Senior	Professor	Sociology	Sociology Dept., University of Valencia	Valencia	Spain
Ernest	Garcia	PhD	Professor	Sociology	Universitat de València, Dpt. Sociologia i Antropologia Social	València	Spain
Adolfo .E.	Boy	MSc Horticulture	Professor	Sustainable Agriculture	University of Morón	Morón	Argentina	National Award in Horticulture 1997. Chair of Institute of Sustainable Agriculture
Alain	Cuerrier	PhD	Professor	Taxonomy/Botany	Quebec University at Montreal	Montreal	Canada
Jazariah	Azariah	MA. M.Sc. Ph.D	Professor, Director	Ecology, Environmental Ethics	Dept. of Zoology School of life Sciences University of Madras, guindy Campus	Chennai	India	Founder president, All India Bioethics Association
Dennis R.	McCalla	Ph.D.	Professor Emeritus	biochemistry and genetics	McMaster University	Hamilton	Canada
Philip B.	Rudnick	PhD	Professor Emeritus	Chemistry	West Chester University of Pennsylvania	West Chester, PA	United States of America
Joe E.	Cummins	PhD	Professor Emeritus	Genetics	University of Western Ontario	London	Canada
Edwin E.	Daniel	Ph.D. FRSC	Professor Emeritus	Health Science	Faculty of Heath Sciences, McMaster University	Hamilton, Ontario	Canada
Braxton M.	ALFRED	PhD	Professor Emeritus	Biological anthropology	University of British Columbia	Vancouver, BC	Canada
Ann	Oaks	PhD, FRSC	Professor, Retired	Department of Botany	University of Guelph	Guelph, Ontario	Canada
Anne	Morgan	Ph.D.	Professor. Retired	Entomology/climate change	University of Waterloo	Waterloo	Canada
Adriano	Decarli	PhD	Professor_____________	Cancer epidemiology_____________	INST. Medical Statistics and Biometry, Univ. of Milan	Milan	Italy
Mae-Wan	Ho	M.D.	Reader	Biology	Open University	Milton Keynes	UK
Robert C	Poller	Ph.D,D.Sc.	Reader Emeritus	Chemistry	University of London	London	Great Britain
Frank G.H.P.	FISHER	BA(Hons), BEng(Hons), MEnv.St.(Hons)	Associate Professor	Environmental Sciece	Graduate School of Environmental Science, MONASH UNIVERSITY	CLAYTON, 3800	Australia	F.E.I.A. [Fellow, Environ. Institute of Australia]. M. Inst. of Engineers Aust., M. Int. Soc. Systems Sciences
Gayle Robin	Hamilton	Ph.D.	Associate Professor	Public Health	Center for the Advancement of Public Health, George Mason University	Fairfax, VA	United States of America
Kenneth G.	Walton	Ph.D.	Associate Professor