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by SimonJFoster
Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:45 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.
Replies: 154
Views: 51486

Re: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.

Interesting to see the SA crowing victory over the FSA GM dialogue issue. The statement on the FSA website reads: 'Ministers have confirmed to the Food Standards Agency that the GM (genetic modification) dialogue project will not continue in its current format. The details of the Government’s policy...
by SimonJFoster
Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:33 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.
Replies: 154
Views: 51486

Re: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.

Hi Alan, In the website the person from GM Watch is factually incorrect in what he says or suggests. He is saying that non GM research can do what GM has done in the research which is to insert a blight resistant gene into an existing popular variety of potato. As it stands with the Savari Trust Ex...
by SimonJFoster
Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:12 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.
Replies: 154
Views: 51486

Re: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.

alan refail wrote:Hi Simon

I'm sure you won't mind my posting this link to your TV interview on Look East.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-11151927


Absolutely no problem at all Alan (and apologies, not had chance to catch up with these posts until now).
by SimonJFoster
Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:33 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.
Replies: 154
Views: 51486

Re: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.

Many thanks all for your kind welcomes. I took some time last night to have a look through the thread and it seems there is quite a nice balanced discussion going on. I couldn't immediately find any outstanding issues that I need to clarify but if I've missed a burning question that somebody had and...
by SimonJFoster
Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:50 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.
Replies: 154
Views: 51486

Re: GM Potato Blight trials to go ahead.

Hi everyone, I'm a scientist involved in this project here at the Sainsbury Laboratory. Firstly apologies, I only just picked up that there was a discussion about our project with GM potatoes ongoing here. Always nice to see our work generating some discussion. I did contribute to a similar thread o...