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- 2000
- Advanta admits separation distances in UK far closer than Canada
- Advanta to pay up
- Britain's babies back baby food ban
- Buy it from farmers' markets
- Buy your festive feast from local farmers
- Cadbury's admits its chocolate contains lindane
- Call for new biotech commission to halt spread of GM seeds
- Children get raw deal from Government
- Euro MPs fail GM Test
- Farm scale trials must be called off
- First UK organic beer festival held in Birmingham
- FOE responds to Prince Philip's confidence about GM foods
- Food Standards Agency could do better
- GM farm scale trial is useless
- GM farm scale trials threaten UK honey
- GM farmers pull out of trials
- GM scientist deserves sack says Friends of the Earth
- GM trials are a farce
- Government gambling with countryside
- Government in chaos over GM seeds
- Government in shambles over GM mistake
- Government prepares to decide commercial approval for GM crops before trial ends
- Government proposes to trash GM trials
- Hormone disrupting chemicals found in baby food
- Iceland to stock organic food at non-organic prices
- Illegal GM ingredients found in supermarkets
- Lindane is banned - nearly
- More GM crops set for Wales
- MPs debate new law on GM liability
- New fears over impact of GM crops on birdlife
- Public wants pesticides banned from supermarket food
- Scientists slam GM research
- Supermarket Real Food sham
- Top insurer says no to GM pollution cover
- Wales can ban GM
- Welsh agriculture secretary bottles out of Assembly decision on GM
- Aventis criticised by Government barrister
- Baby Blair greeted with hamper of Real Food
- Biosafety Protocol Agreed
- Biotech giant clams up at GM Seed List Hearing
- Call for pesticide tax
- Church advisers say no to GM crop trials
- Diners still worry about GM food
- FOE slams Krebs over organic food
- GM contamination inevitable admits Meacher
- GM food scare hits US taco lovers
- GM seed fiasco means farmers start to dig up crops
- GM-free diet for Iceland livestock
- Government GM policy in tatters
- Government set to give go-ahead to commercial licensing
- Hold on the milk says top scientist
- Kiss of death for GM seed
- Pesticides level rise in fruit AND veg
- Promising green speech from Blair?
- Shock admission that GM crops are already growing in the UK
- Supermarkets back organic farming bill
GM farm scale trial is useless20 June 2000
Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to abandon a GM farm scale trial site in Scotland after it was revealed that GM contaminated oilseed rape had been inadvertently planted as part of the experiment.
Two crops are supposed to be planted as part of the GM farm scale evaluations - one using GM crops, the other non-GM. However, the farm scale trial at Daviot in Scotland inadvertently planted oilseed rape contaminated with GMOs instead of a purely non-GM variety. The accidental GM planting has been modified to be resistant to a different type of pesticide than the GM oil seed rape which is being trialed. FOE fears that this may lead to the creation of GM resistant super weeds.
Friends of the Earth Real food Campaigner, Adrian Bebb said: "This farm scale trial was already a threat to the local environment but with the neighbouring crop also being genetically modified the risk is even greater. This is a recipe for superweeds to form in following years - resistant not to one but now to two herbicides. The UK Government must follow its own advice and destroy this crop before it flowers. Anything less would be highly irresponsible."
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