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2006-12-06 | permalink
Bungle let 'twice as much' corn into New Zealand
Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton says the border bungle which allowed into New Zealand sweetcorn seed now suspected of being genetically modified was twice as bad as previously thought. Mr Anderton told Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons an estimated 4420kg of sweetcorn seed was being investigated for possible GM contamination. This included an extra 2620kg of possibly contaminated seed that had been identified by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry following further tracing in the past day, he said in Parliament.
- The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand: Bungle let 'twice as much' corn into NZ
- The Gisborne Herald, New Zealand: Gisborne sweetcorn under spotlight in new GM scare
- The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand: Biosecurity meeting corn growers over GE seed in New Zealand
- TVNZ, New Zealand: Corn scare farmers may get compo
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2006-12-06 | permalink
Bungle let 'twice as much' corn into New Zealand
Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton says the border bungle which allowed into New Zealand sweetcorn seed now suspected of being genetically modified was twice as bad as previously thought. Mr Anderton told Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons an estimated 4420kg of sweetcorn seed was being investigated for possible GM contamination. This included an extra 2620kg of possibly contaminated seed that had been identified by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry following further tracing in the past day, he said in Parliament.
- The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand: Bungle let 'twice as much' corn into NZ
- The Gisborne Herald, New Zealand: Gisborne sweetcorn under spotlight in new GM scare
- The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand: Biosecurity meeting corn growers over GE seed in New Zealand
- TVNZ, New Zealand: Corn scare farmers may get compo
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