FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: GM trials illegal -- FOE la launches court challenge.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-23 August 1999-FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: GM trials illegal -- FOE launches court challenge (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:230899 Friends of the Earth will present papers today to the High Court, seeking a judicial review of a key Government decision allowing a major expansion in the growing of GM crops in the UK.

The news will severely embarrass the Government, which has bent its own rules to allow biotech giant AgrEvo to rush through an unjustified growth in the farm scale trials. The Government's decision allowed AgrEvo to change the GM crop being tested without submitting a new application quadruple the amount of land covered by farm-scale trials, to an area the size of Southampton (from 1,250 ha to 5,000 ha) grow the crop for...