US sent banned corn to Europe for four years
04/17/05
All imports of United States corn have been stopped at British ports following the discovery that the US has been illegally exporting a banned GM maize to Europe for the past four years. The unprecedented move, which has angered the Bush administration, follows efforts to hush up and play down the scandal on both sides of the Atlantic. ... The scandal -- the worst yet involving GM imports -- centres around maize named Bt 11, modified to repel a pest called the corn borer. It also contains a gene conferring resistance to antibiotics. All such crops are banned in Europe because of fears that the resistance could spread to consumers via the food chain...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=630186
from Independent [UK]
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
All imports of United States corn have been stopped at British ports following the discovery that the US has been illegally exporting a banned GM maize to Europe for the past four years. The unprecedented move, which has angered the Bush administration, follows efforts to hush up and play down the scandal on both sides of the Atlantic. ... The scandal -- the worst yet involving GM imports -- centres around maize named Bt 11, modified to repel a pest called the corn borer. It also contains a gene conferring resistance to antibiotics. All such crops are banned in Europe because of fears that the resistance could spread to consumers via the food chain...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=630186
from Independent [UK]
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 18. Apr, 15:12
