Did Syngentas illegal corn come to Europe?
2.US probes sale of GM corn – Wired News EXCERPTS: “This is an industry out of control. For four years Syngenta failed to notice that they were selling farmers an unapproved genetically modified seed. How are consumers and farmers supposed to trust them to produce our food in the future? This case makes a complete mockery of the US regulatory system for GM crops. To make matters worse the US Government has known about this accident for months and together with Syngenta decided to keep it a secret until now. This is complete scandal.” – Adrian Bebb, , Friends of the Earth Europe (item 1) “It’s a massive failure of the U.S. regulatory system. They didn’t know about this until the end of 2004 and they only found out quite by chance. That tells you how poorly companies are monitoring the experiments they do… This is certainly going to be a big problem for the United States.” – Sujatha Byravan, executive director of the Council for Responsible Genetics, a nonprofit biotechnology interest
