>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:27:45 EDT >Subject: Medium Grain California Rice may be Contaminated - Japan to >start testing > >.LL601 is probably in Californian rice as well >Dr Brian John > >From an examination of the Bayer 1998 petition for the deregulation >of LL62 and LL06 rice: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/not_reg.html > >It is clear that of the many LL rice lines tested by Bayer, LL06 was >intended for Californian conditions (medium grain rice) and LL62 for >the southern states. There were many field trials in widely >dispersed locations in 1997 and 1998 in California. Some of these >are listed on pp 42 etc (Tables V1 - V6) of the Petition. Can't find >any mention of LL601 as a tested variety, but it was probably one of >four (out of 36 lines tested) that underperformed or had some other >defect and was then abandoned. > >There were also field tests in Puerto Rico and Louisiana -- and by >the look of it, Arkansas and Missouri. > >Since most of the development work on LL601 appears to have been >done in California, presumably from 06 as a parent line, it is >highly likely that Californian medium grain rice is now contaminated >with LL601 and with various other abandoned GM lines. Nobody knows >how extensive this contamination is, because there is no testing. > >Furthermore, since no reference materials or genetic >characterisations have been provided by Bayer for LL601 and the >other redundant varieties, nobody knows what to look for or how to >do the tests. Very convenient. > >Net result of all this? Californian medium grain rice is probably >just as heavily contaminated as long-grain rice from the southern >states -- and the Japanese confidence that Californian rice is >"clean" is probably misplaced. > >Brian > >Petition no: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/aphisdocs/98_32901p.pdf > >06-234-01p Bayer CropScience >HT-Phosphinothricin tolerant >Received: 22-AUG-2006 >Status: Pending >06-234-01p >98-329-01p >Bayer CropScience >Rice >Glufosinate tolerant >LLRICE601 > >Japan to Test U.S. Short- and Medium-Grain Rice for LLRICE601 > >TOKYO - Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry's >(MAFF) Food Department will start testing all U.S. short- and >medium-grain rice imports (whole and broken kernels) and existing >rice stocks for the presence of Bayer CropScience LLRICE601, the >U.S. Embassy here said today. > >Testing will begin with a shipment of U.S. rice that is scheduled to >arrive in Japan Sept. 30, but will not >apply to processed products, the embassy said to the USA Rice Federation. > >"We are surprised by this development, because Japan is not a >long-grain customer for U.S. rice and >LLRICE601 has not been found in U.S. medium and short varieties," >said Bob Cummings, USA Rice VP, for international polic policy. > >Future import samples will be drawn from the product at loading in >the United States and air mailed to Japan for testing at MAFF's >expense. The first results of testing on U.S. rice held in MAFF >warehouses in Japan will reportedly be available by next week with >all stocks test results ready by late October. > >"We are following the situation closely," Cummings said, "and will >be working with USDA and U.S. >Trade Repres Representative officials." > >Contact: Bob Cummings Cummings, (703) , 236- 14 1473 73 >--- >--- > > >===================== > > >********************************************************************* >**************************** >This confidential email news service is a production of the >Ecological Farming Association ><http://www.eco-farm.org/>www.eco-farm.org , is edited by Thomas >Wittman and supported by a generous grant from Newmans Own. To get >off of this list just reply to any post and type "Remove" in the >header. >********************************************************************* >*****************************
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