Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Correspondence
Nature 394, 715 (20 August 1998) | doi:10.1038/29384
Open Innovation Challenges
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Business Devlopment Officer
- Rhydburg Pharmaceuticals
- Selaqui-Dehradun India
3 Postdoctoral positions available
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas, USA
Transgene risk is not too low to be tested
Brian V. Ford-Lloyd1
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
e-mail: Email: b.ford-lloyd@bham.ac.uk
In the Newsstory1 "Organic farmer takes gene battle to court", the view is reported that "the probability of cross-pollination, and its effects on the environment and food safety, is too small to be studied effectively". But the probability of cross-pollination is a different issue from the effect of transgenes on the environment and food, which is not one of probability, but one that is amenable to experimental study.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
