cheers, Jo
At 01:13 15-10-00, you wrote:
>[From today’s NY Times. Full text:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/14/science/14FOOD.html]
>
>New Concerns Rise on Keeping Track of Modified Corn
>
>By Kurt Eichenwald
>
>Efforts to trace shipments of a bioengineered corn unapproved for human
>consumption have raised concern among food and grain industry officials
>that the corn — which has already been discovered in two brands of grocery
>products — may have made its way more widely into production channels for
>the nation's food supply.
>
>Millions of bushels of the unapproved corn, known as StarLink, have been
>delivered to more than 350 grain elevators around the country. Government
>and industry officials, uncertain how much of the corn has been properly
>segregated and identified, are now pushing the operators to test their
>supplies for evidence of contamination. ...
>
>"This whole system has been self-policing by the seed industry," one food
>company executive said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "And obviously
>it hasn't worked."
>
>[end of excerpt]
>
>Carl
>
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