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  1. Association Campagne Glyphosate, Foix, France

    Daniel Grau, Nicole Grau & Quentin Gascuel

  2. Université de Pau Et Des Pays de L’Adour, E2S UPPA, CNRS, LMAP, Pau, France

    Christian Paroissin

  3. ARSEAA, Pôle Guidance Infantile, Psychiatrie infanto-juvénile secteur III, Labège, France

    Cécile Stratonovitch

  4. Faculté de Médecine de La Timone, Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, INRA, C2VN, Marseille, France

    Denis Lairon

  5. Centre Universitaire de Formation Et de Recherche de Mayotte, Dembeni, France

    Damien A. Devault

  6. UMR7268, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES, Marseille, France

    Julie Di Cristofaro

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Daniel Grau, Nicole Grau, and Quentin Gascuel are members of the Campagne Glyphosate Association.

Cécile Stratonovitch is a member of the board of directors of the association Alerte des médecins sur les pesticides, dedicated to providing information on the health effects of pesticides, on a non-profit basis.

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Grau, D., Grau, N., Gascuel, Q. et al. Answer to “Comments on ‘Quantifiable urine glyphosate levels detected in 99% of the French population, with higher values in men, in younger people, and in farmers’”. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 46377–46379 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20862-2

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