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Nature 415, 250 (17 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415250c

Allegations of police surveillance prompt calls for inquiry

Sally Goodman

INSERM, France's main biomedical research agency, has been asked to investigate allegations that one of its laboratories came under police surveillance because of its work on the role of dietary salt in heart disease.The allegations, which have been emphatically denied by the French authorities, appeared in the 11 January edition of Le Point, one of France's leading weekly news magazines.