Nature article on contamination involving unapproved GMOs

[nosmokes]

the original story is from Nature magazine, but it's a pay site. GM watch has it up at no cost.
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Nature article on contamination involving unapproved GMOs
(12/1/2007)

GM WATCH NOTE: Look out for the box under this article with a useful list of past contamination by unapproved GMOs - "Some Past Escapes".

GM WATCH COMMENT: This article rightly concludes "no amount of regulation can guarantee that these crops will not escape and multiply", even when they involve potent pharmaceutical compounds, but it then concludes that we'll just have to put up with it. Why? Because otherwise it will "have a chilling effect on research". There's no suggestion that the public should have any say in the decision making on the future of the food they and their children eat.
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OUT OF BOUNDS
Nature, 10 January 2007
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070108/full/445132a.html

With the use of transgenic crops expanding around the globe, we need to decide what level of unapproved plants we are willing to accept in our diets. Zero is not an option, says Heidi Ledford.

Steve Linscombe still isn't quite sure how it happened. The director of the Louisiana State University AgCenter for Rice Research knows that he grew a few lines of transgenic rice in field trials between 2001 and 2003. He also knows that one of those lines, LLRICE601, was grown on less than one acre. What he is not clear on is how the line then wended its way into the food supply. That little mystery is now the subject of an official investigation and a class-action lawsuit.

When the escape was announced in August last year, LLRICE601 had not been approved for human consumption. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) rushed to deregulate the crop, granting permission on 24 November for LLRICE601 to be grown without a permit. By then, Japan had already declared a month-long ban on all imports of US long-grain rice, and the European Union had started to require all US long-grain rice imports to be tested and certified at the expense of the exporters. Meanwhile, Bayer CropScience, the company that created the rice strain, put the blame squarely on farmers and an "act of God".

By that logic, this would not be the first time that a deity has aided and abetted the escape of a genetically engineered crop. On 21 December, Syngenta was fined $1.5 million for allowing its unapproved pest-resistant Bt10 corn (maize) to mix into seed distributed for food. The past decade is smattered with examples of unapproved crops sneaking through containment barriers (see 'Some past escapes'). When they make it into the food supply — as with LLRICE601 and Bt10 — public outcry and financial losses follow. But amid the calls for tighter regulations, experts say one truth is being drowned out: no amount of regulation can guarantee that these crops will not escape and multiply.
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complete article here

[leftchick]

thank you

what a fucked up world we have thanks to greed. :(

[leftchick]

1. woops

thanks twice? :)

[Double T]

2. Why has EVERYTHING that has been done in the last six years...........

APPEAR to be a botched job. Or is the result of what has been done intentional and THEN blamed as an accidental, unintentional botched job