IN YET another blunder by the biotech industry, it has emerged that a non-approved variety of genetically modified maize was sold in the US for four years. The corn poses no health risk, but the incident is sparking renewed accusations that the regulations and methods for controlling GM crops are faulty.
“This really makes us wonder what else is in corn that has not been approved,” says Jane Rissler of the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington DC. “It seems that companies either won’t or can’t control it.”
The non-approved GM variety, Bt 10, produces exactly the same bacterial toxin…
