The FSE maize results are invalid because they compared GM maize with conventional maize used with the banned herbicide atrazine?
The FSE trials were designed in 1999 and from then until 2005 atrazine was the most commonly used herbicide on conventional maize crops (starting in 2005 its use would be phased out). The GM maize in the FSEs already had an EU consent for commercial cultivation which lapsed in October 2006. ACRE considered the position in that context. ACRE recommended that further work should be done to explore the implications of the phasing out of atrazine relative to the FSE results and, in effect, that the GM maize consent should not be considered for renewal after 2005 without evidence that allows a comparison between the GM maize herbicide regime and whatever replaces atrazine as the main herbicide used with conventional maize.
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