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RUSSELL JACKSON
THE prospect of genetically-modified (GM) crops being grown commercially on British soil in the immediate future receded yesterday when the producer of the only crop with government approval said it was giving up efforts to sell its maize in the UK. The announcement by the German biotechnology company, Bayer CropScience, was greeted with delight by environmental campaigners.
The producer said it had decided to pull out of further attempts to commercialise its GM forage maize variety Chardon LL, as the government had placed "a number of constraints" on the initial conditional approval. Ministers had given their consent last month.
Sarah North, a Greenpeace campaigner, said: "The only GM crop with a government green light now doesn’t even have the support of its manufacturer."
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http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=371032004