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Counting the cost of GM contamination

Posted by jamie — 9 November 2007 at 3:13pm - Comments

Indian farmers campaigning against GM rice

Indian farmers campaigning against GM rice near Lucknow earlier this week © Greenpeace

A couple of GM stories have popped up recently over on our international site, one of which requires your help.

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World's largest rice company bans GM-contaminated imports from US

Posted by jamie — 2 October 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

A selection of different rice varieties

Just weeks after we uncovered US rice on supermarket shelves across Europe, including the UK, containing illegal genetically modified (GM) rice, the scandal continues to grow with more illegal GM rice being discovered. In the latest blow for the GM industry, the world's largest rice processing company has stopped importing US rice into Europe due to the threat of contamination.

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Food Standards Authority faces legal action over GM rice in UK supermarkets

Posted by jamie — 18 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

The rice contamination scandal continues to grow but the Food Standards Agency isn't enforcing the law

It never rains but it pours, and the scandal of US rice contaminated with an illegal genetically modified (GM) variety shows no signs of slowing down. In the latest twist, Friends of the Earth has indicated it intends to launch legal proceedings against the Food Standards Authority (FSA) after finding contaminated rice on sale in UK supermarkets.

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One fifth of US rice contaminated with illegal GM strain

Posted by jamie — 14 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments
'Genetic engineering - hands off', the label says on a plate of rice contaminated with an illegal GM variety

'Genetic engineering - hands off', the label says on a plate of rice contaminated with an illegal GM variety

Up to one fifth of rice entering the EU is contaminated with an illegal genetically modified (GM) strain from the US. Those are the findings of the European Commission's own investigation into EU rice imports, following the admission in August by the US government that untested strains of GM rice had entered the food chain.

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GM rice contamination reaches the UK

Posted by jamie — 5 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments
Greenpeace has discovered illegal GM (Genetically Modified) rice from China has contaminated food products brought in the UK.

Greenpeace has discovered illegal GM (Genetically Modified) rice from China has contaminated food products brought in the UK.

Illegal, genetically modified (GM) rice - unapproved for human consumption and containing a toxin that may cause allergic reactions in humans - has been found in food products in the UK, Germany and France.

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Victory: Bayer pulls out of GM research in India

Last edited 17 November 2004 at 9:00am
Traditional farming in India

Traditional farming in India

In a major blow to the future of genetically modified (GM) crops in the developing world, GM company Bayer has announced that it has stopped all its work on creating new GM crops in India. This is the biotech giant's third defeat this year proving just how unsustainable and unwanted GM agriculture is.

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Major blow for biotech as Bayer stops GM research in India

Last edited 17 November 2004 at 9:00am
17 November, 2004

In a major blow to the future of genetically modified (GM) crops in the developing world, GM company Bayer has announced that it has stopped all its work on creating new GM crops in India. In a letter to Greenpeace, Bayer claims that the decision to stop GM research was "due to changes in our global research strategy," and concedes that all work on GM cabbage, cauliflower, aubergine, tomato and mustard seed has stopped. The company will now only concentrate on conventional plant breeding.

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