Life Sciences Confused About GE Risk
Media Release
Attention; Agriculture, NGO,
Environmental, Trade, Science, Consumer, Local Body, and
Government Reporters.
Soil & Health Association of New
Zealand
(Est. 1941)
Publishers of ORGANIC NZ
16 July 2009
Life Sciences Confused About GE Risk
The biotech lobby group, Life Sciences appears confused about the birds and the bees, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand.
Quoted in today’s Christchurch Press newspaper, Life Sciences chairman William Rolleston had said, “The recent breaches by Plant and Food Research at Lincoln in a GM-brassica trial were not as bad as some might think. You have to ask yourself, `what risk was actually posed by those plants?’