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2007-03-20 | permalink
Rise and shine: the GM wake-up call
Food authorities should also demand more complete data from biotech companies before approving any crop. It’s all a question of transparency. In the past I have taken a ”let’s wait and see” approach to GMOs, refusing to pitch my tent in either camp until I had seen more science, but this latest study has raised some serious doubts. Not about GMOs in general, but about GMOs engineered to contain these Bt-toxins. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has revealed that it will review the new data at the end of this week, and also revealed that this was not the first time that such concerns have been raised about this variety of corn.
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2007-03-20 | permalink
Rise and shine: the GM wake-up call
Food authorities should also demand more complete data from biotech companies before approving any crop. It’s all a question of transparency. In the past I have taken a ”let’s wait and see” approach to GMOs, refusing to pitch my tent in either camp until I had seen more science, but this latest study has raised some serious doubts. Not about GMOs in general, but about GMOs engineered to contain these Bt-toxins. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has revealed that it will review the new data at the end of this week, and also revealed that this was not the first time that such concerns have been raised about this variety of corn.
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