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US Won't Say Which
Pharmaceutical GM Crop Escaped
Mysterious Pharmaceutical GM
Crop Goes Wrong in the US
Friends of the Earth International (Amsterdam)
News Release
11-21-2
BRUSSELS -- US Authoritites unwilling as of today to
report which
Genetically Modified Pharmaceutical maize was found in
the food chain
The United States food chain has been contaminated by
Genetically
Modified (GM) maize plants used to produce a
pharmaceutical or
industrial chemical but US authorities are unwilling as
of today to
disclose what the mysterious GM Pharmaceutical maize is
that was
found for the first time among food crops in two US
States (Iowa and
Nebraska).
Friends of the Earth is seeking urgent reassurance from
the European
Commission that food in Europe has not been
contaminated. The
company that produced the maize, Prodigene, carries out
a range of
outdoor tests on crops containing pharmaceuticals and
industrial
products in at least 96 locations in the US.
The ProdiGene incidents reportedly frustrated the US
food industry,
which stated on Thursday Nov. 14 that biotech companies
need to
change which crops they have chosen to make drugs and
industrial
products.
This was an accident waiting to happen. If you grow GM
crops outdoors
then they will eventually contaminate the rest of the
food chain. We are
seeking urgent reassurances that food imported into
Europe has not
been contaminated, said Adrian Bebb, GM Campaigner at
Friends of
the Earth.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on
Tuesday Nov.
12 that it quarantined over $2.7 million worth of soya
beans (500,000
tonnes) destined for human consumption at a Nebraska
grain elevator
after finding parts of ProdiGene's GM maize mixed with
the soya beans.
They later ordered their destruction.
USDA authorities, who refuse to reveal the chemical or
drug genetically
engineered in the GM maize, also claim that a similar
incident happened
last year involving the same company. The soya crop was
planted and
harvested on the same site where a GM pharmaceutical
maize was
grown on the previous year. Seeds dropped by the maize
grew this year
and contaminated the soya crop.
Friends of the Earth, as part of a wider US coalition,
warned the US
Government earlier this year that this could happen. The
coalition is
now filing a legal petition demanding an immediate halt
to the outdoor
growing of pharmaceutical GM crops.
Research into the company involved, Prodigene, reveals
that the
contamination could be one of the following :
* AIDS vaccine gp120 -- a glycoprotein
* Blood-clotting agent -- Aprotinin
* Trypsin - Digestive enzyme that can be used in leather
tanning or to
produce insulin.
* Industrial adhesive Laccase -- an enzyme derived from
a fungus
Other pharmaceutical GM crops reportedly grown by
ProdiGene include
experimental oral vaccines for hepatitis B and for a pig
disease,
transmissible gastroenteritis. According to USDA records
ProdiGene
has received 85 test permits for experimental open-air
trials of
pharmaceutical GM crops and chemical crops for planting
in at least 96
locations.
Once you start genetically engineering drugs and
chemicals into crop
plants then you really are opening Pandora�s box. The
consequences
could be catastrophic, said Adrian Bebb of GM Campaigner
at Friends
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