China's rice exports may have GE contamination

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Environmental group Greenpeace warned yesterday that illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice might contaminate China's exports to other countries.
China, the sixth-largest exporter of the world's most widely consumed staple crop, is reportedly about to decide whether to commercialize GE rice, but global food chains could be at risk even now, according to Greenpeace.

"We can't rule out the possibility that GE rice could contaminate rice exports from China," Sze Pang Cheung, a Greenpeace campaign manager, told a briefing in Beijing.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/06/14/2003259211

[Maple]

1. So does the rice

you're currently eating

[tuvor]

2. That dam burst ages ago.

"Worldwide, about 672 million acres of land are under cultivation, of which 25 percent or 167.2 million acres – an area greater than twice the size of the United Kingdom – consisted of GM crops in 2003."

http://pewagbiotech.org/resources/factsheets/display.php3?FactsheetID=2

Or is there a difference between "genetically engineered" and "genetically modified"?