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Do You Ear What I Ear?
Government kept mum about GM corn's mistaken identity |
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23 Mar 2005 |
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| Do You Ear What I Ear? Government kept mum about GM corn's mistaken identity Over a four-year period, Swiss biotech giant Syngenta AG inadvertently sold unapproved strains of genetically modified corn seed to U.S. farmers. The corporation claims the sales, which began in 2001, resulted from a case of mistaken identity between two genetically similar varieties of GM corn. Although the company reported the mistake to ... |
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| Topics: GMOs, news, Switzerland, United States (all these topics) |
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