GRACE is inviting experts, stakeholders and interested members of the public to take part in a scientific discussion of the recently published results of the project:

• 90-day feeding study with genetically modified MON810 maize
• Improved statistical approach for better interpretation of feeding trial data.

A public discussion forum was set up for this purpose, hosted by the scientific journal Archives of Toxicology.

We invite letters/commentaries up to 2,000 words which may contain up to ten references. Both sides (pro and contra the article) are encouraged to contribute.

Scientific arguments will be published unchanged; however, commentaries with personal attacks will not be published.
 

We are looking forward to the discussion.
 

Submissions to the Open Forum: Letters/commentaries can be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Archives of Toxicology: Prof. Jan G. Hengstler Email: archtox@ifado.de

Current contributions:

• In December 2014, the Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Toxicology, Prof. Jan Hengstler, launched the open scientific forum with a leading article:
  J. Hengstler: Invitation to an open scientific discussion. Arch Toxicol (2015) 89:1–2
   
• In another contribution, Prof. Pablo Steinberg, one of the main authors of the GRACE paper, responded in detail to criticisms of the 90-day feeding study raised by Testbiotech:
  P. Steinberg: Response to a report and press release by Bauer-Panskus and Then (2014) criticizing the presentation and interpretation of the results of recently published 90-day feeding studies with diets containing genetically modified MON810-maize varieties and their comparators (Zeljenková et al. 2014). Arch Toxicol (2015) 89:137-139