Is the Suspension of MON810 Maize Cultivation by Some European Countries Scientifically Justified?
Agnes E. Ricroch, Jean Baptiste Berge and Marcel Kuntz
http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2010/Apr/Suspension-of-MON810-Maize-Cultivation.pdf
MON810 is a transgenic trait introgressed into a number of maize varieties, consisting of a Bacillus thuringiensis-derived gene (Bt), or more precisely, a truncated cry1Ab gene encoding an insecticidal protein for control of some lepidopteran pest insects such as Ostrinia nubilalis, the European maize borer. We examined the justifications invoked by the German government in April 2009, and the previous year by the French government, to suspend the cultivation of these genetically modified maize varieties.
The circumstances surrounding the French Government?s decision and two meta-analyses by J.B. Bergé and A. Ricroch of the “scientific” arguments commissioned by the French Government can be found at:
http://www.marcel-kuntz-ogm.fr/article-germany-france-45973948.html
Conclusions:
Neither government has provided scientific data justifying its ban. Both governments have deliberately commissioned biased reports, with an incomplete set of scientific references and presenting false
conclusions on an environmental impact of MON810 to satisfy a political agenda.
