GENETIC ENGINEERING: CROPLIFE LAUNCHES GUIDANCE DOCUMENT FOR GM FIELD TRIALS.(genetically modified crops)(Brief Article)

Europe Agri, October, 2005

The issue of field trials and ensuring that GM grains do not mix with conventional ones is at the heart of the frequently ferocious debate on GMOs which has consumed the EU in recent months. Back in April, the biotech industry's credibility took a blow when Swiss biotech company Syngenta admitted that it had inadvertently sold several hundred tonnes of unapproved Bt10 corn in the US for four years (see Europe Information Agriculture 174). The case was seized upon by GM sceptics as proof of the biotech industry's inability to control genetic engineering in practice.

Critics argue that the biotech industry sacrifices safety for profit as it pushes its GM products around the world, particularly in developing countries. CropLife's new guidance document is an...

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