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• A new research has found that GM oilseed rape could contaminate non-GM crops 15 years after it was grown - longer than previously thought. September 2005. See here. • In March 2004 the British Medical Association (BMA) published its second interim statement on genetically modified foods and health. The BMA has identified several areas where believe more research is needed. Acces to the full interim statement here. • Research using human volunteers discovered that gut microflora had absorbed the GM DNA after just one meal. February 2004. • Further evidence that most if not all commercially approved transgenic lines are genetically unstable and non-uniform has come to light. The transgenic lines fail to satisfy the current EU Directive requirements for proof of genetic stability and uniformity, and are hence illegal. December 2003. • Northwest Science and Environmental Policy Center published a report: " Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Eight Years", which highlight that GM corn, soybean and cotton have increased the use of pesticide since 1996. November 2003. • The results of the Farm Scale Evaluations in the UK have shown that growing GM oilseed rape and beet damage biodiversity. 16 October 2003. • Action Aid report concluded that GM technology is likely to exacerbate food insecurity, leading to more hungry people, not fewer. May 2003. • New research on Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has shown that genetically modified Bt crop can be extra-nutritious for some pests. May 2003. • DEFRA research found GM pollen over a distance of 26 Km, April 2003. Click here. • Co-existence of genetically modified organism with conventional and organic crops is expensive. According to a Danish report the costs of measures preventing GM contamination in conventional and organic crops would increase up to 21%. February 2003. • A report of the Soil Association "Seeds of doubt: experiences of North America farmers of genetically modified crops" demonstrates that alleged benefits of GM crops have proven untrue and that their introduction in the UK would undermine both competitiveness of British Agriculture and the government's promised expansion of organic farming. September 2002. • Scientists shocked at GM gene transfer - weeds have become stronger and fitter by cross-breeding with genetically modified crops, leading to fears that super weeds, which are difficult or impossible to control, may invade farms growing standard crops. August 2002. • British doctors have urged a halt to genetically modified crop trials. In November 2002 the British Medical Association (BMA) published an advice to the Health and Community Care Committee of the Scottish Parliament. The BMA -which has a membership of over 120.000 representing more than 80% of British doctors- says that there "has not yet been a robust and thorough search into the potentially harmful effects of GM foodstuffs on human health.". To see the full text of the doctors advice, click here . • UK Food Standard Agency publishes University of Newcastle research indicating that modified DNA survives in human gut, antibiotic marker genes can be taken up by intestinal bacteria - see "evaluating the risks associated with using GMOs in human foods, http://www.foodstandars\ds.gov.uk/science/sciencetopics/gmfoods/gm-reports , and "GM genes found in human gut', John Vidal, The Guardian, 17 July 2002, http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4463029,00.html • GM Bt cotton, which makes up 35% of China's crop, is damaging the environment despite its success in controlling the bollworm pest, according to a new report. June 2002. • BBC investigation reveals that GM maize needs more applications of toxic chemicals, June 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/archive/2067669.stm • EU Joint Research Centre says GMOs will mean financial losses for farmers - see JRC study "Scenarios for co-existence of genetically modified, conventional and organic crops in European agriculture". • The European Environmental Agency publishes its report "Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): The significance of gene flow through pollen transfer" stating that oilseed rape is "high risk" and sugar beet "medium to high risk" for pollen mediated gene flow from crop to crop and from crop to wild relatives, March 2002. • "Persistence of oilseed rape outside cultivated fields", Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Vol. 102, F.D. Pessel et al, July 2001. • Monsanto's GM soya increases uses of Roundup herbicide, May 2001. • "Sound science? The evidence against Aventis T25 maize", Friends of the Earth, February 2001. http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/sound_science.pdf • US - illegal Starlink GM maize discovered in human food chain, September 2000. http://www.foe.org/camps/comm/safefood/gefood/starlink.pdf • UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report reveals GM crops are not needed to feed the world, April, 2000. • Farmers may need more chemicals with GM crops, December 1999. New Scientist Magazine, 15.12.1999. • Christian Aid report "Selling suicide: farming, false promises and genetic engineering in developing countries", May 1999.
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