Safety reports on Agbiotech

The Brazilian, Indian, Chinese, Mexican, 3rd world, UK & US Academies of Science all agree GM crops & food are safe

<http://books.nap.edu/html/transgenic/safety.html>

400+ EC research teams (cost £33m) show "GM crops & food are probably even safer than their conventional equivalents”

<http://ec.europa.eu/research/quality-of-life/gmo/>

<http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp5/eag-gmo.html>

<http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp5/pdf/eag-gmo.pdf>

BMA (British Medical Association) now accepts the Royal Society on the safety of existing GM crops and food.

<http://www.bma.org.uk/health_promotion_ethics/nutrition_exercise/GMFoods.jsp>

U.S. government report shows Starlink did not result in any alleged allergies or effects from the now fully approved crop

<http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/GMFoods>

<http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehhe/Cry9cReport/pdfs/cry9creport.pdf>

The USDA reports increased yield and reduced chemicals after ten years

<http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib11/eib11c.pdf>

-table 3 and figure 8 for example.

EFSA reviews product approvals every time its opinions are challenged by NGOs

<http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press_room/press_release/pr_efsa_maize_Mon863.html>

2007 USDA traces deaths & hospitalisation to E coli from organically-grown spinach. 12th para of.

<http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June07/Features/Spinach.htm>

Even one of Greenpeace’s founders Patrick Moore publicly disagrees with them

<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/15/1076779833837.html>

Zambia's GM food fear traced to UK - 29 January 2003 - New Scientist

<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3317-zambias-gm-food-fear-traced-to-uk.html>

Hungry for the right advice - 01 February 2003 - New Scientist

<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17723800.200-hungry-for-the-right-advice.html>

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