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  • From: pete <pete.rout@virgin.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Monsanto Accidentally Released GE Cottonseed
  • Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:02:08 +0000


Is this another way to get it released without all the checks?

Pete



Monsanto Accidentally Released GE Cottonseed
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15912.cfm

* Experimental cotton unlikely to pose feed hazard
By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press, December 3, 2008
Straight to the Source

Contaminated GE cottonseed consumed at cattle feed lots

An unauthorized strain of genetically modified cotton was accidentally
mixed in with other harvested cotton in Texas last month, but government
officials on Wednesday played down any safety concerns.

About a quarter ton of the experimental cotton seed engineered to contain a
protein that produces a pesticide was combined with about 60 tons of
commercial cotton growing nearby, said Eric Flamm, a senior adviser at the
Food and Drug Administration.

The mixture, grown near Lamesa in West Texas, about 300 miles west of Fort
Worth, was then stored along with 20,000 tons of commercial cotton seed in
a warehouse. Nearly half the crop was processed into cottonseed oil and
cotton meal to use as animal feed before officials at Monsanto Co., which
grows the experimental cotton on a test plot, realized the mistake.

Monsanto officials notified the government of the error on Nov. 10.

"We're talking about a very small amount, but nevertheless, a material that
contains a pesticidal substance and has not been authorized for food or
feed use," Flamm said on a conference call with reporters.

Flamm said most of the contaminated crop that was processed into animal
feed had already been consumed at cattle feed lots. Two truckloads of the
crop were delivered to Mexico, and U.S. officials have notified that
country.

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