CONCERN over the accidental planting of genetically modified seed on several
farms in Europe reached fever pitch last week. And now a company in the US has
warned that the problem is probably commonplace.
“My guess is that it happens all the time,” says Jeffrey Smith, vice
president of marketing and communications at Genetic ID of Fairfield, Iowa. The
company, which screens agricultural produce for GM material, found that more
than half of 20 random samples of conventional seed taken from American
distributors contained some GM seed.
The latest European furore began with the news that farmers throughout the
continent…
