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Genetic engineering and true food fact sheets


Dangerous food: The GE corn variety, MON863, approved for human consumption in Australia, causes toxic symptoms. Enlarge image

The case of MON863 corn

March 20, 2007

This Greenpeace briefing of the peer-reviewed evaluation of Monsanto's data outlines why MON863 should not have been approved in Australia or the European Union.

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Dangerous food: The GE corn variety, MON863, approved for human consumption in Australia, causes toxic symptoms. Enlarge image

MON863 corn: A case study in incompetence

March 19, 2007

This Greenpeace briefing details how Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) came to approve a GE corn, MON863, that was later declared to be unsafe by an independent study.

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Our food under threat

August 01, 2006

A handful of multinational chemical companies has engineered new kinds of plants and food that could never have occurred in nature. These include corn that produces its own insecticide and soybeans that are immune to toxic sprays. Our food is under threat.

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