[Heaven] GM Contamination Spreads Across 35 Countries
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GM
Contamination Spreads Across 35
Countries
Last September, the Flax Council of
Canada
(FCC) announced that an unapproved
variety
of genetically modified flax was
detected in
food products in Europe. The GM flax
variety
was identified as FP967 or
"Triffid,"
which had been developed in Canada,
but was
never commercialized and has been
illegal to
grow in Canada since 2001. Since the
initial
announcement last September, GM flax
contamination has been reported in
35
countries. The contamination has
decimated
Canada's flax exports to Europe,
which buys
70% of Canada's flax exports worth
an
estimated $321 million (Canadian).
The
European Union has zero tolerance
for
unapproved GMOs. More than six
months later
disturbing questions remain about
the GM
flax contamination: No one knows for
sure
how a GM flax variety that had been
removed
from the market eight years earlier
ended up
contaminating food products in 35
countries.
According to the Canadian
Biotechnology
Action Network, by 2001, 40 seed
growers
were multiplying 200,000 bushels of
GM seed
for future demand. One theory is
that some
flax growers continued to grow the
variety
even after the Canadian flax
industry
decided not to allow commercial
production
of GM flax.
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