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Correspondence
Nature 414, 843 (20 December 2001) | doi:10.1038/414843b
Industry and evaluation
Les Firbank1
- Farm-Scale Evaluations of GM Herbicide-tolerant Crops, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Merlewood Research Station, Grange-over-Sands, LA11 6JU, UK
Despite the statement in your Opinion article "Finding a future for GM crops" (Nature 414, 1; 2001), the Supply Chain Initiative on Modified Agricultural Crops (SCIMAC) is not involved with coordination of farm-scale evaluations of genetically modified (GM) crops in Great Britain, nor has industry been involved in setting the questions or research agenda underlying the evaluations.The research agenda was developed by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Scottish Executive, in response to concerns raised by English Nature and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (L.
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