EU urged to ban US rice in genes row

The European Union was facing calls to ban all imports of rice from the US, August 2006, after Washington conceded that traces of an unauthorised variety of genetically modified rice had entered the food and feed supply in the US.

Bayer CropScience http://www.bayercropscience.com/

Bayer CropScience: Press Release, 18.8.06: Bayer CropScience comments on the identification of traces of biotechnology rice in U.S. rice samples http://www.bayercropscience.com/bayer/cropscience/cscms.nsf/id/20060819_EN?Open&ccm=400020000&L=EN&markedcolor=%23003399

United States: US Food and Drug Administration: CFSAN/Office of Food Additive Safety, August 2006: U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Statement on Report of Bioengineered Rice in the Food Supply http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/biorice.html

United States: US Food and Drug Administration: CFSAN/Office of Food Additive Safety: Biotechnology http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/biotechm.html

United States: Department of Agriculture: Press Release, 18.8.06: Statement by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns Regarding Genetically Engineered Rice http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2006/08/0307.xml

Friends of the Earth Europe: Press Release, 21.8.06: EU urged to ban North American rice http://www.foeeurope.org/press/2006/AB_21_Aug_US_rice.html

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