Troubling inspection reports reveal vast outdoor experimentation in the US with GMO crops

http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15633-troubling-inspection-
reports-reveal-vast-outdoor-experimentation-in-the-us-with-gmo-crops

 06 September 2014.

Investigative reporter Bill Lambrecht uncovers a trail of mistakes and violations in GMO field trials

EXCERPT: Companies and universities conducting field trials usually are eager to remedy problems and avoid further scrutiny. That apparently wasn't the case last year at the University of Florida, which received a formal letter from APHIS about its failings after a tomato researcher told an inspector that he didn't plan to monitor adjacent land for unwanted volunteer plants and intended to lie about it if asked.


Gene-altered apple tested in Washington state

By BILL LAMBRECHT, HEARST NEWSPAPERS

seattlepi.com, September 5, 2014
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Gene-altered-apple-tested-in-Washington-state-5736742.php

GMO experiments receive questionable oversight, by Bill Lambrecht

http://m.sfgate.com/science/article/GMO-experiments-receive-questionable-oversight-5740478.php

GMO experiments receive questionable oversight
Central Coast corn used for varied experiments

Bill Lambrecht | September 7, 2014

At a secret location among the vineyards of California's Central Coast, a plot of genetically engineered corn is producing proteins for industrial and pharmaceutical uses, including an experimental vaccine for hepatitis B.

The altered corn is growing with federal approval 100 feet from a steelhead stream in San Luis Obispo County, in designated critical habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog. Agriculture Department inspectors have reported two "incidents" at the site, including conventional corn sprouting in a 50-foot fallow zone, but the findings did not rise to the level of a fine or even to a formal notice of noncompliance for the company that planted it, Applied Biotechnology Institute Inc.

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The founder and president of Applied Biotechnology, John A. Howard, previously founded another company that was permanently banned from trials of genetically modified organisms - GMOs - after creating such contaminated messes in the Midwest that a half-million bushels of soybeans and more than 150 acres of corn had to be destroyed.