ON THE eve of a major conference on the safety of genetically modified food
and crops, two research teams have put forward their vision of how scientists
can ensure that transgenic plants and animals don’t run riot when released into
the environment.
“At the moment, the environment is being used as an open air laboratory,”
says Adrian Bebb of Friends of the Earth in Britain. There is no agreed way to
evaluate the dangers of GMOs before field trials are carried out. Once an
organism has been released, it could be too late.
Now William Muir and his colleague Richard…
