Greenpeace activists protest on a barge containing contaminated illegal GM rice shipped from the US in the harbour of Rotterdam. The environmental organisation released a report today, which reveals systematic contamination of food, feed and seeds with GMOs on a global scale. In 2007, 20 cases of contaminated rice were reported. Rice is a staple food for 2.5 billion people around the globe. Greenpeace demands that the EU blocks imports of long-grain rice from the US, until the authorities have the GM contamination problem under control.
28 February 2008
Rotterdam Netherlands

Greenpeace activists protest on a barge containing contaminated illegal GM rice shipped from the US in the harbour of Rotterdam. The environmental organisation released a report today, which reveals systematic contamination of food, feed and seeds with GMOs on a global scale. In 2007, 20 cases of contaminated rice were reported. Rice is a staple food for 2.5 billion people around the globe. Greenpeace demands that the EU blocks imports of long-grain rice from the US, until the authorities have the GM contamination problem under control.

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