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
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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 |
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|
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 Valčncia, Dpt. Sociologia i Antropologia Social |
Valčncia |
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 |
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Joe E. |
Cummins |
PhD |
Professor
Emeritus |
Genetics |
University
of Western Ontario |
London |
Canada |
|
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Edwin E. |
Daniel |
Ph.D.
FRSC |
Professor
Emeritus |
Health
Science |
Faculty
of Heath Sciences, McMaster University |
Hamilton,
Ontario |
Canada |
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Braxton
M. |
ALFRED |
PhD |
Professor
Emeritus |
Biological
anthropology |
University
of British Columbia |
Vancouver,
BC |
Canada |
|
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Ann |
Oaks |
PhD, FRSC |
Professor,
Retired |
Department
of Botany |
University
of Guelph |
Guelph,
Ontario |
Canada |
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Anne |
Morgan |
Ph.D. |
Professor.
Retired |
Entomology/climate
change |
University
of Waterloo |
Waterloo |
Canada |
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Adriano |
Decarli |
PhD |
Professor_____________ |
Cancer
epidemiology_____________ |
INST.
Medical Statistics and Biometry, Univ. of Milan |
Milan |
Italy |
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Mae-Wan |
Ho |
M.D. |
Reader |
Biology |
Open
University |
Milton
Keynes |
UK |
|
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Robert C |
Poller |
Ph.D,D.Sc. |
Reader
Emeritus |
Chemistry |
University
of London |
London |
Great
Britain |
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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 |
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|
Kenneth
G. |
Walton |
Ph.D. |
Associate
Professor |