Greenpeace_raids_and_seals_off_Thai_lab

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> Greenpeace raids Khon Kaen lab

> The Nation, Jul 28, 2004

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http://nationmultimedia.com/page.news.php3?clid=3 & id=118017 & usrsess=1

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> A government researcher and an environmental group

> yesterday clashed over experiments on genetically

> engineered (GE) papaya at an agricultural research

> station in Khon Kaen, the country’s largest supplier

> of papaya seeds.

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> Greenpeace Southeast Asia raided and sealed off the

> research station, accusing the government of

> breaking a ban on genetically modified organisms

> (GMOs).

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> Greenpeace executive director Jiraporn Gajaseni said

> lab checks from Hong Kong confirm the research

> station distributed GMO papaya seeds to farmers.

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> " This is a huge violation of the GMO ban, " she said.

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> Rebutting Jiraporn, research station chief Kanwajee

> Srisuwan said she had filed a police complaint

> against the environmental group for trespass and

> destroying government property.

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> Kanwajee said she has been studying ways to improve

> papayas, particularly the popular Khaek Dam strain,

> for more than two decades.

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> " I am certain that my genetically engineered papaya

> have not been contaminated with GMOs, as alleged by

> Greenpeace, " she said.

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