Scientists clash over GM safety20 February 2002
Government GM advisors ACRE (the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment) and ACAF (the Advisory Committee on Animal Feeding stuffs) held a unique public meeting to consider disputed scientific evidence used to allow GM maize, owned by Aventis, to be given permission to be commercially grown in the UK.
The hearing follows the collapse of a series of public hearings against the licensing of the GM seed, led by Friends of the Earth, in 2000. The hearings were suspended after it was discovered that official tests on the seeds had only been carried out for one year, rather than the two required.
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