This is unreal. first Bayer plants their franken rice, that they claim they have intent to ever market so they have no approval fo planting this shit in the first place. then they do not take every measure posssible to contain it and it inevitably finds it way into the rice supply of the nation. and contrary to the claims of the company in the article, regulators in other countries did not and are not welcoming american rice with open arms because they do not find LL601 to be as benign as bayer crop science would like us to believe. in fact all american rice was banned from japan and the EU because of the contmination costing american rice farmers loads of money and when they took bayer to court, bayers defense was to blame the contamination on the farmers and god. but of course with corporate toadies running our regulatory agencies it certainly won't hurt bayer's case in court. outfuckinrageous.
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original-mercury newsUSDA approves genetically engineered rice found last summerAssociated Press
WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department approved for human consumption a type of genetically engineered rice that had contaminated domestic rice supplies last summer.
The USDA said Friday that its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service decided to deregulate the experimental long-grain rice after a review of scientific evidence indicated it was as safe as its traditionally bred counterparts.
In August, trace amounts of the rice, designated LLRICE601, were found in storage bins in Arkansas and Missouri. Bayer CropScience AG, a German company with U.S. headquarters in Research Triangle Park, N.C., sought approval for the rice after the contamination was discovered.
The USDA said that an investigation to determine the circumstances surrounding the release and whether any department regulations were violated was nearly complete.
Bayer CropScience said in a statement that it welcomed the USDA decision deregulating the rice. Still, the company said it had no plans to sell the variety, which is designed to resist a specific type of herbicide.
The company said regulators have found that the protein in its herbicide-tolerant rice varieties, including LLRICE601, poses no human health or environmental concern. The protein has been approved for food use in a number of crops by regulators in Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, the United States and other countries, the company said.
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