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Retraction Note: DNA barcoding detects contamination and substitution in North American herbal products

The Original Article was published on 11 October 2013

Retraction Note: BMC Med 11, 222 (2013)

https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-222


The Editor has retracted this article. An investigation by the University of Guelph has found evidence of data fabrication in relation to this article. The Editor therefore no longer has confidence in the presented data.

Steven Newmaster, Dhivya Shanmughanandhan, Subramanyam Ragupathy and Sathishkumar Ramalingam disagree with this retraction. Meghan Grguric has not explicitly stated whether they agree with this retraction.

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BMC Medicine Editorial Office. Retraction Note: DNA barcoding detects contamination and substitution in North American herbal products. BMC Med 22, 279 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-024-03504-x

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