1 Retraction Note to: J. Verbr. Lebensm. DOI 10.1007/s00003-010-0579-x

The Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety/Journal für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit have decided to retract the following article: Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan, Artificial neural networks: a novel tool for detecting GMO. 2011, Volume 6, Issue 1, pages 13–23, DOI 10.1007/s00003-010-0579-x.

It has come to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief that this article has significant overlap with the previously published article in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis without giving reference to this article: Rafaat El-Sanhoty, Tamer Shahwan, Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan, Application of artificial neural networks to develop a classification model between genetically modified maize (Bt-176) and conventional maize by applying lipid analysis data, 2006, Volume 19, issue 6–7, pages 628–636, DOI 10.1016/j.jfca.2006.03.013.

The Editor-in-Chief apologizes to the readers for any inconvenience caused by this retraction.