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2006-11-30 |

Wild GM canola continues to spread

Table 4: Survey of GM canola pollution (Chubu no Kai and others) Table 4: Survey of GM canola pollution (Chubu no Kai and others)

The results of the nationwide GM canola survey called for by the citizens' organization "No! GMO Campaign" were announced at a meeting in Tokyo on 8 July 2006. In this survey, the second after the survey conducted in 2005, 1942 samples were taken in 42 prefectures. 38 positive samples were found using the simple kit for preliminary protein testing, of which 31 were found to be positive in a second DNA test by the PCR method.

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2006-11-30 |

Wild GM canola continues to spread

Table 4: Survey of GM canola pollution (Chubu no Kai and others) Table 4: Survey of GM canola pollution (Chubu no Kai and others)

The results of the nationwide GM canola survey called for by the citizens' organization "No! GMO Campaign" were announced at a meeting in Tokyo on 8 July 2006. In this survey, the second after the survey conducted in 2005, 1942 samples were taken in 42 prefectures. 38 positive samples were found using the simple kit for preliminary protein testing, of which 31 were found to be positive in a second DNA test by the PCR method.

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