What are grain elevator operators doing about the contaminated corn?
Big grain elevator operators and millers are testing loads of corn arriving for purchase for StarLink. Farmers who try to sell contaminated loads are generally directed to find cattle feedlots or ethanol producers for their corn. ConAgra closed one of its mills to check for StarLink contamination and to clean their mill. Both grain processors and farmers are facing the need to segregate genetically engineered grain from conventional grain, something the system is not equipped to do. Aventis has supplied testing kits to grain elevators and processors around the country. DuPont also released a test kit for genetically engineered DNA in food samples. How has this affected food manufactured using corn flour? In October 2000, the Kellogg Co. stopped production of some of its products in a Memphis, Tennessee plant because the mill that supplied its corn flour had shut down to check for StarLink corn. Kellogg produces Frosted Flakes and Special K cereals, among others. In October 2000, ConAgr
