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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?’

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