GENETIC ENGINEERING: ROMANIAN CROPS 'CONTAMINATED' WITH GM-SOYA, CLAIMS GREENPEACE.

Europe Agri, January, 2006

"Transgenic seeds are a poisoned promise. Romania did not have any scientific and public debate prior to the commercial introduction. Neither the authorities, nor the companies applied the precautionary principle in assessing the impact of these crops in agriculture. Year after year, the acreage of the herbicide resistant soybeans increased uncontrollably", Dragos Dima, former manager of Monsanto and Limagrain in Romania, told a press conference on January at the International Green Week in Berlin. Mr Dima left Monsanto in 1999, when the genetically-modified soyabeans were first introduced in Romania.

Romanian Government officials, reacting to Greenpeace's findings, announced that the cultivation of GM-crops should be reduced in 2006 and phased out completely...

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