UK ROYAL SOCIETY HQ BANS GM FOOD
 
 A scientist we know attended a function earlier this month at the Royal 
Society in London and reports that lunch was served in a room in which there 
was a prominent notice that proudly proclaimed that... wait for it, wait for 
it, ..... "We do not serve any food derived from genetically modified 
materials". 
  
 Does this represent an important shift in Royal Society GM policy (it was 
previously involved in a heavy-handed exercise believed by many to have been 
designed to deliberately discredit the work that Professor Pusztai had done 
on the health effects of GM potatoes)? Does the Royal Society now know 
something the rest of us don't?  
 
 This follows on from a previous GM catering ban in the House of Commons. So 
it appears neither our politicians nor our most eminent scientists are 
personally keen on eating GM foods.
 
 The Royal Society of Canada recently issued a report indicating that the 
biosafety testing of GM foods is seriously deficient, see: 
http://www.rsc.ca/foodbiotechnology/indexEN.html
 
 Meanwhile let's hope the new GM-free RS in the UK is willing to chew on this 
recent statement from the DETR: 
 
 "....things should have been more properly assessed, reviewing all the 
issues in respect to safety ..... The Chardon LL hearing has raised several 
safety concerns for government regarding human health.... [there are] a large 
number of unknowns yet and we'll have to wait and see....the government's got 
into a very bad position due [to]bad decisions taken early in the process".

Linda Smith, DETR, 4th meeting of the  Agriculture & Environment 
Biotechnology Commission (AEBC), February 2001. 
http://www.i-sis.org/AEBCnorwich-pr.shtml
 
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