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2009-07-31 | permalink
Most complex GE corn approved in Canada and the USA without specific risk assessment
The most complex genetically engineered corn (maize) yet has been approved for use next year in Canada and the United States without its potential health and environmental risks being investigated, anti-biotech activists charged Wednesday. Neither U.S. nor Canadian health officials have assessed the human health safety of Monsanto’s and Dow AgroSciences’ new ’SmartStax’ genetically engineered (GE) corn with eight novel genes inserted into corn DNA, said the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), an NGO based in Ottawa, Canada. ”Health Canada did not conduct or require any testing for this new eight-trait GE (also called genetically modified, GM or GMO) corn and did not even officially authorise it for release into the food system,” said Lucy Sharratt, CBAN’s coordinator.
- Inter Press Service News Agency, Italy: Monsanto, Dow stacking the deck, critics say
- The Epoch Times, Canada: U.S. GE corn raises controversy in Canada
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: No safety assessment of GE corn by Health Canada
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: Why ”SmartStax” is dumb
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: CFIA ’s irresponsible rubber-stamping of new genetically engineered corn
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: Genetically Modified Food: Canada capitulates and abandons fight with Europe at the WTO
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2009-07-31 | permalink
Most complex GE corn approved in Canada and the USA without specific risk assessment
The most complex genetically engineered corn (maize) yet has been approved for use next year in Canada and the United States without its potential health and environmental risks being investigated, anti-biotech activists charged Wednesday. Neither U.S. nor Canadian health officials have assessed the human health safety of Monsanto’s and Dow AgroSciences’ new ’SmartStax’ genetically engineered (GE) corn with eight novel genes inserted into corn DNA, said the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), an NGO based in Ottawa, Canada. ”Health Canada did not conduct or require any testing for this new eight-trait GE (also called genetically modified, GM or GMO) corn and did not even officially authorise it for release into the food system,” said Lucy Sharratt, CBAN’s coordinator.
- Inter Press Service News Agency, Italy: Monsanto, Dow stacking the deck, critics say
- The Epoch Times, Canada: U.S. GE corn raises controversy in Canada
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: No safety assessment of GE corn by Health Canada
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: Why ”SmartStax” is dumb
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: CFIA ’s irresponsible rubber-stamping of new genetically engineered corn
- Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada: Genetically Modified Food: Canada capitulates and abandons fight with Europe at the WTO
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