Banned GM maize sown in Germany
The question is which one and how much. There are conflicting reports from various news agencies
Here is one from the BBC
The Nature magazine’s blog sums up the confusion and as they point out this is likley to stir the debate up again – like it wasn’t already stirring. I can guess it will be ammunition for the anti-GM crowd in Australia to support their cries that contamination is inevitable and that once released the genie is out of the bottle forever. Not a peep from Monsanto, at least nothing official on their website
Perspective
The contamination is < 1% (as far as we can tell from the reports, so far), not that that is any consolation to those who don’t want any.
It isn’t harmful to human health (at least according to regulatory agencies), not that that is any consolation to those for whom even a relatively remote risk is too much