article_snippet: Toxic’ pollen from GM corn can travel miles to contaminate the countryside, researchers claim.
article_snippet: Watchdogs have launched an investigation into GM corn following a study showing ‘toxic’ pollen from the plants can travel miles to contaminate the countryside .
article_snippet: Critics say that if this is correct the rules must be redrawn to protect the countryside and stop the pollen contaminating conventional and organic farms and food over vast areas.
article_snippet: European Food Safety Authority is now reviewing the approval process for the corn known as Bt maize – following a study showing ‘toxic’ pollen from the plants can travel miles to contaminate the countryside.
article_snippet: European Food Safety Authority investigation is particularly important because European Food Safety Authority is in the final throes of approving a type of GM maize that was assessed under a safety regime that did not take account of the new information.
article_snippet: The European Food Safety Authority is reviewing the approval process for the corn – known as Bt maize - following a research study by German academics, while one environmental group called for one environmental group to be banned altogether .
article_snippet: one environmental group concluded that measures would be needed to ensure any GM maize crops are more than half a mile away from sensitive areas of countryside which are home to important populations of butterflies and moths.
article_snippet: Mute Schimpf, of Friends of the Earth Europe, said: ‘The only logical and scientific conclusion is to halt the cultivation of all GM maize in Europe.
article_snippet: Last month, MPs on the science and technology select committee said the term ‘GM food’ should be abandoned because the term ‘ had become a ‘lightning rod’ for fears about designer crops.
highlights_snippet: Shows commercial farming of GM maize would contaminate vast areas .
  
highlights_snippet: European Food Safety Authority reviewing approval process for the corn .
  