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Japan finds sixth Bt-10 shipment, Syngenta to pay
BRIDGES Trade BioRes, Vol. 5 No. 14 22 July 2005
On 13 July the Japanese government found a sixth import shipment of US grain feed that was contaminated with unapproved GM corn strain Bt-10. Japan has a zero-tolerance policy for unapproved GM imports and any shipments found with Bt-10 must either be destroyed or shipped back to the US. Japan has been testing imports of US grain feed since 23 May as a result of the discovery in March that US exports of approved GM corn strain Bt-11, created by biotech company Syngenta, had been unintentionally contaminated by the company's unapproved Bt-10 strain (see BRIDGES Trade BioRes, 29 April 2005, http://www.ictsd.org/biores/05-04-29/inbrief.htm). The same day, Syngenta agreed to pay additional costs incurred by US grain exporters and Japanese importers to test cargoes for Bt-10.
Web Link: http://www.ictsd.org/biores/05-07-22/story3.htm
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