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2009-07-27 | permalink
Monsanto and Dow Chemical win approval for GE stacked corn ”SmartStax”
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed producer, and partner Dow Chemical Co. won U.S. and Canadian approvals to sell genetically modified SmartStax corn seed that allows farmers to plant less land with conventional corn. Their shares rose in late trading. The approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency permits most farmers in the two countries to reduce their so-called refuge of conventional corn to 5 percent of biotech acres, from 20 percent, St. Louis-based Monsanto and Midland, Michigan-based Monsanto said today in a statement.
- Bloomberg, USA: Monsanto, Dow Chemical win approval for modified corn
- Reuters, UK: Dow, Monsanto get US approval for new corn seed
- The Montreal Gazette, Canada: Quick, quiet genetic corn approval questioned
- Country Guide, Canada: Green groups rip CFIA’s SmartStax approval
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: CFIA ’s irresponsible rubber-stamping of new genetically engineered corn
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2009-07-27 | permalink
Monsanto and Dow Chemical win approval for GE stacked corn ”SmartStax”
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed producer, and partner Dow Chemical Co. won U.S. and Canadian approvals to sell genetically modified SmartStax corn seed that allows farmers to plant less land with conventional corn. Their shares rose in late trading. The approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency permits most farmers in the two countries to reduce their so-called refuge of conventional corn to 5 percent of biotech acres, from 20 percent, St. Louis-based Monsanto and Midland, Michigan-based Monsanto said today in a statement.
- Bloomberg, USA: Monsanto, Dow Chemical win approval for modified corn
- Reuters, UK: Dow, Monsanto get US approval for new corn seed
- The Montreal Gazette, Canada: Quick, quiet genetic corn approval questioned
- Country Guide, Canada: Green groups rip CFIA’s SmartStax approval
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: CFIA ’s irresponsible rubber-stamping of new genetically engineered corn
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