NGO highlights "global GM contamination"

Environment Daily 1070, 28 September 2001

Contamination of crops and foods worldwide by genes escaping from the
specific crops into which they were engineered through genetic
modification (GM) is now "the big problem" posed by crop biotechnology,
according to Friends of the Earth International. In a new brochure, the
NGO surveys examples of "GM contamination," including the American
"Starlink" maize episode and similar contamination of oilseed 
rape in Europe 
(ED 19/05/00 www.environmentdaily.com/articles/index.cfm?action=a-articleref 7665).

In response, the world must move as quickly as possible to agree a
liability mechanism under the UN Cartagena biosafety protocol, it
concludes. See press release

http://www.foeeurope.org/press/JL_28.09.01_Liability.htm

and the report

http://www.foeeurope.org/publications/Final_GMO_Contamination.pdf</a>