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....the study from the 'Research Center for Milk and Foodstuffs in Weihenstephan,

Bavaria, was kept under lock and key for three years' according to the German

media report below.

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comment from nlpwessex:

 

The use of GM crops in farm animal feeds is continuing to move up the agenda

particularly through the work of Greenpeace.

 

Greepeance UK recently forced major supermarket Sainsbury into concessions over

the use by its milk suppliers of GM cattle feed

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3722185.stm ;

http://www.just-food.com/news_detail.asp?art=57720 )

 

This week Greenpeace have boarded a ship from the US delivering GM animal feed

to the UK with several activists currently under arrest

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3827669.stm ). The ship is due in at Bristol

this morning after being held up by Greenpeace at sea for 36 hours

off the coast of Wales.

 

Now Greenpeace say they have come across scientific evidence that GM material is

getting into milk in Germany. This claim is likely to generate considerable

controversy. One study is will not fully establish the situation.

 

The real test will be whether the authorities initiate independent follow-up

studies to examine the issue more carefully, or whether as happened in the case

of Dr Puztai and his discovery in relation to GM potatoes in 1998 (

http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/a.pusztai/ ), a ruthless campaign is executed

to discredit the original work and to ensure that no further independent

research is carried out.

 

Significantly in this latest case the study from the 'Research Center for Milk

and Foodstuffs in Weihenstephan, Bavaria, was kept under lock and key

for three years' according to the German media report below.

 

Standard operating procedures apply it would seem!

 

Thanks to GM-free animal feed supplier " AgroTrace " for details and translation

of this story from whom a copy of the Bavarian study in pdf format may be

requested (http://www.agrotrace.biz/ ).

 

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Translation:

Traces of Genetic Engineering Detected in Milk

 

Greenpeace: Gap in the Labeling of Animal Products Must be Closed

 

Hamburg/Vienna – On Monday the environmental organization Greenpeace published

the results of a study showing for the first time the detection of

genetically modified contamination in milk samples. The scientists found parts

of the gene substance of biotech soya and biotech maize in the milk of a farmer

in Bavaria who had fed these plants [to his animals].

 

" Scientific research finding this impossible so far now has to be re-evaluated " ,

says Henning Strodthoff, biotechnology expert at Greenpeace. So far it has been

assumed that GMO plants are degraded during digestion and that they do not find

their way into meat or milk. According to the EU

labeling regulation for genetically modified food there is no labeling

requirement for animal products. " This gap on the labeling must be closed

immediately " , demands Strodthoff.

 

Study Kept under Lock and Key

 

The study of the Research Center for Milk and Foodstuffs in Weihenstephan,

Bavaria, was kept under lock and key for three years. Greenpeace is

demanding further research and labeling of animal products fed with GMO feed.

 

In the farmer's milk samples that were analyzed DNA from genetically modified

Roundup Ready Soya and genetically modified Bt176 maize were detected.

Furthermore, the research report points out several possibilities as to how the

gene segments may have found their way into the milk: Via the GMO feed that was

fed to the animals, or via the dust from the feed in case the air was

contaminated with it. So far, no further studies have been conducted in order to

clarify the exact way of the DNA fragments into the milk.

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[German Original]

http://derstandard.at/text/?id=1702842

 

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21.06.2004 13:25

 

Gentechnikspuren in Milch nachgewiesen Greenpeace: Lücke in der Kennzeichnung

tierischer Produkte muss geschlossen werden

 

Hamburg/Wien - Die Umweltorganisation Greenpeace veröffentlichte am Montag

Untersuchungsergebnisse, die erstmals den Nachweis von gentechnischen

Verunreinigungen in Milchproben erbringen. In der Milch eines Landwirtes in

Bayern, der Gentech-Soja und Gentech-Mais verfütterte, fanden Wissenschafter

Teile der Erbsubstanz dieser Pflanzen.

 

" Was die Forschung bisher für unmöglich hielt, muss nun anders bewertet werden " ,

sagt Henning Strodthoff, Gentechnikexperte von Greenpeace. Bisher wurde

angenommen, dass Gen-Pflanzen bei der Verdauung abgebaut werden und nicht in

Fleisch oder Milch gelangen. Nach der EUKennzeichnungsverordnung

für gentechnisch veränderte Lebensmittel besteht keine Kennzeichnungspflicht für

tierische Produkte. " Die Lücke in der Kennzeichnung muss sofort

geschlossen werden " , fordert Strodthoff.

 

Untersuchung unter Verschluss

 

Die Untersuchung des Forschungszentrums für Milch und Lebensmittel in

Weihenstephan in Bayern wurde drei Jahre unter Verschluss gehalten. Greenpeace

forderte weitere Studien und eine Kennzeichnung von tierischen Produkten, die

mit Gentech-Futter hergestellt wurden.

 

In den analysierten Milchproben des Landwirts konnte die Erbsubstanz von

gentechnisch verändertem Roundup Ready Soja und genmanipulierten Bt176 Mais

nachgewiesen werden. Zudem zeigt der Untersuchungsbericht mehrere Möglichkeiten

auf, wie die Gen-Abschnitte in die Milch gelangt sein könnten: Über das

Gen-Futter, das die Tiere bekommen haben oder den Staub des Futters, wenn die

Luft damit belastet war. Bisher wurden keine weiteren Untersuchungen

durchgeführt, um den genauen Weg der DNA-Fragmente in die Milch zu klären.(APA)

 

Link zum Artikel: Gentechnikspuren in Milch nachgewiesen

 

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