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The original study: Stephen R. Padgette et al., “The composition of Glyphosate-
where they can never be fully recalled. Tolerant Soybean Seeds Is Equivalent to That of conventional Soybeans,” The Journal
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As they wake up to the risks of GMOs, they Growing Animals (Elsevier, 2005).
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