Retraction notice to “Mancozeb-induced genotoxicity and apoptosis in cultured human lymphocytes” [Life Sci. 90/21-22 (2012) 815 - 824] (Life Sciences (2012) 90(21–22) (815–824), (S0024320512000021), (10.1016/j.lfs.2011.12.013))

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This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Multiple figures in this article appear to be falsified/fabricated. Fig. 2 shows manipulated dot plots for two different treatment groups (2 μl/ml and 5 μl/ml). Fig. 6 (caspase 9 blot) is very similar to fig. 5 (total ERK1/2) of a previous paper from this group published in Cancer Letters, 282, (2009) 67–176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2009.03.003. In Fig. 4, Lanes 4 and 5 are identical for most of their lengths, with only cosmetic changes along the edges of the upper half. Fig. 6 contains similar portions of Fig. 2(a) of a paper published by the same group in Food and Chemical Toxicology, 49, (2011) 1511–1520, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2011.03.040 The authors have not been able to provide any justification for this image manipulation. © 2022 Elsevier Inc.