By: GMwatch.org, 08/25/2013
All approvals of GM crops in Brazil fail to conform with legal norms and twist science in the interests of GM companies, says regulator. The article below was submitted to Consea, the food safety advisory body to the Brazilian president, by Leonardo Melgarejo, a member of Brazil's GMO regulatory body CTNBio.
In the article, Melgarejo criticizes the release of GMOs in Brazil and exposes CTNBio's negligence in assessing them for safety. He describes unscientific tricks that are also used by European Food Safety Authority in its evaluations of GM foods, such as dismissing significant differences in GM-fed animals as not being biologically relevant - without any scientific justification. Melgarejo adds that all releases of GMOs in Brazil thus far are illegal because they fail to conform with legal norms set by the regulators.
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