MPs urge ban on GM maize pending further tests

[Lori Price CLG]

MPs urge ban on GM maize pending further tests

05 March 2004

The Government was today urged by a powerful all-party committee of MPs not to give the go-ahead to commercial planting of GM maize until more testing has been carried out.

A hard hitting report unanimously agreed by the Commons Environmental Audit Committee into three-year farm scale trials of the controversial crops underlines their deep concerns and casts doubt on the validity of the tests.

The MPs say they are concerned that the GM herbicide tolerant forage maize trials "were based on unsatisfactory, indeed invalid comparison".

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[burrowowl]

1. Good for them!

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