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De:
Luiz Meira <luizmeira@aleph.com.br>
Data: Qui Abr 1, 1999 2:06
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Assunto: [gen-ocidio] polen transgenico fertiliza milho organico
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> Mothers for Natural Law
> Biweekly News 99/03/31
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> Copyright 1999 Madison Newspapers, Inc. Wisconsin State Journal
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> March 24, 1999, Wednesday, ALL EDITIONS
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> Wind-Blown Genes Cut Into Organic Profits
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> Rick Barrett Agribusiness reporter
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> Bad news could be blowing in the wind for organic farmers and food companies
> if their crops are contaminated from the airborne pollen of genetically
> altered crops. In one case, a Hudson food company recently lost $ 170,000 in
> sales after its organic corn chips tested positive for genetically engineered
> corn. The company, Prima Terra, had shipped 80,000 bags of chips to Holland
> -- only to have them fail a random "gene scan" by government inspectors.
> Under European regulations, the chips could not be sold as organic even
> though only one bag in the shipment might have been contaminated. Prima Terra
> destroyed all of the chips rather than ship them back to the United States.
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> After the incident last December, Prima Terra didn't ship any chips for two
> months until it was certain it had found the source of the contamination,
> said company president Charles Walker. The source was pollen from genetically
> engineered corn that blew into an organic farmer's corn field in Texas. The
> corn had a patented gene inserted into it that made it artificially resistant
> to bugs -- something not allowed in organic farming. It might have come from
> a neighboring field or it might have come from miles away, as corn pollen
> travels in the wind. ''But either way it was a nightmare for us,'' Walker
> said, adding that it cut deep into company corn chip profits for an entire
> year.
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