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French officials and experts have added their voices to the chorus of criticism over a recent study linking genetically modified corn to tumors in experimental rats. The French national food safety agency joined six scientific academies in concluding the study was too badly done to support its conclusions. The debate comes as voters in the US state of California consider whether to require labels on all foods with ingredients from genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Disturbing images The study in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology included shocking photos of rats which researchers say grew giant tumors after eating GMO corn for two years. Study author Gilles-Eric Seralini at the University of Caen says his findings show regulations on the crop are not good enough. "GM foods have been evaluated in an extremely poor and lax way with much less analysis than we have done," Seralini says. Eighty percent of the packaged foods on US supermarket shelves contain GMO ingredients, according to the Grocery Manufacturers Association. California advocates of a law requiring those ingredients to be identified on food labels have used the French study to bolster their argument. The “Yes on 37” campaign, backing mandatory GMO labeling in this November’s statewide voter referendum, held a press conference with Seralini to announce the results of his research. | 
