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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1492000/1492939.stm
quote:Greenpeace is asking scientists worldwide to help identify a fragment of DNA found in genetically-modified (GM) soya.
The presence of the fragment, in Monsanto's Roundup Ready soya, was detected by Belgian scientists.
Greenpeace is urging the UK government to order sales of the soya to be suspended.
But Monsanto says "the information provided by Greenpeace has not changed the competent authorities' conclusions of their original risk assessment".
The Belgian team's discovery, made some months ago and reported now in the European Journal of Food Research Technology, refers to "a DNA segment of 534 bp DNA for which no sequence homology could be detected".
Dr Doug Parr, Greenpeace-UK's chief scientific adviser, said: "No-one knows what this extra gene sequence is, what it will produce in the soyabean, and what its effects will be.
And for people who now their genetics, what does "a DNA segment of 534 bp DNA for which no sequence homology could be detected" mean? |
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