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2009-03-05 | permalink
USDA: ”GMO contamination happens”
Since 2000, there have been six known incidents of unapproved genetically modified corn and rice entering the US food supply or exports. Common sense would seem to dictate that the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) would want to tighten its oversight of GM crops and force biotechnology companies to make sure their unapproved GMOs stay out of Americans’ corn flakes. This is exactly what the Government Accounting Office (GAO) called for.
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2009-03-05 | permalink
USDA: ”GMO contamination happens”
Since 2000, there have been six known incidents of unapproved genetically modified corn and rice entering the US food supply or exports. Common sense would seem to dictate that the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) would want to tighten its oversight of GM crops and force biotechnology companies to make sure their unapproved GMOs stay out of Americans’ corn flakes. This is exactly what the Government Accounting Office (GAO) called for.
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