French refusal to pull up GMO "contaminated" maize splits government
artificial gene constructs are causing political controversy in France.
Jul 17, 2000
LONDON, 18 July (
The contamination had been detected by a government consumer protection agency, the DGCCRF (Direction Generale de la Consommation et de la Repression des Fraudes), whose discoveries were then leaked to the local paper.
According to INRA, the contaminating gene constructs involved are an approved Novartis