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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] GM Contamination At 21 km and Farther
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:26:54 -0600


The Institute of Science in Society
Science Society Sustainability
http://www.i-sis.org.uk

This article can be found on the I-SIS website at
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMcontamination.php
ISIS Press Release 27/06/07

GM Contamination At 21 km and Farther
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No Co-Existence Possible
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Researchers find GM pollen cross-pollinated non-GM plants at
21 km and predict much worse. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

GM contamination rampant

Everyone knows by now that GM contamination of non-GM crops
and produce is inevitable. There have been142 contamination
incidents recorded worldwide since 1997, according to the GM
Contamination Register [1]. This is an underestimate, as not
every shipment of non-GM produce has been tested, and not
every incident registered.

Many wary consumers are buying organic to avoid eating GM
food. But GM contamination of organic produce is no longer a
rarity.

A recent case of serious contamination involved a shipment
of organic soybeans to a processor in the United States. The
processor had the shipment tested after being tipped off by
a buyer. The lab result showed up a massive GM contamination
of 20 percent. The organic certifier was unable to prosecute
the supplier, also in the US, who sent a different sample
for testing. The processor lost $100 000 in the incident,
but the supplier was still selling his crop [2].

Perhaps in anticipation of widespread contamination of
organic produce, the European Union Council of Agriculture
Ministers voted in June 2007 that organic produce could
contain up to 0.9 percent GM [3], despite the fact that, in
March the same year, the European Parliament passed a
directive setting the contamination threshold at 0.1
percent, which effectively maintained the organic industry’s
insistence on “zero tolerance” of GM contamination.

Or read other articles in the biotechnology
sections of the Institute of Science in Society Website






  • [Livingontheland] GM Contamination At 21 km and Farther, TradingPostPaul, 06/27/2007

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