Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson LL601, the genetically engineered rice variety that has contaminated the US rice supply, is safe. The USDA says so. The UK Food Standards Agency says so. The US Food and …
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FOE Report Criticises EU Biotechnology Strategy as ill-focussed and not evidence-based
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson A major stated goal of the European Union is to integrate and support ecological sustainability, job creation and competitiveness as stated in the form of the Lisbon objectives. These goals …
Continue readingContaminated Rice Cultivar Banned in Arkansas
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson As part of an ongoing US effort to purge contaminating transgenic traits from rice varieties, the state plant board of Arkansas has banned the BASF rice variety Clearfield 131. Clearfield …
Continue readingCisgenic Plants: Just Schouten from the Hip?
Allison Wilson and Jonathan Latham Many genetic engineers have long resented the regulatory procedures imposed on transgenic crop plants, often arguing that there is no difference between the risks arising from transgenic plants and plants …
Continue readingTransgene Escape! – But No One Has Called Out the Guards
Doug Gurian-Sherman of the Centre for Food Safety Introduction One route by which transgenes (the genes engineered into crops) may cause harm is by permanently escaping from agricultural environments into wild or natural areas. This …
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