Unapproved GMO wheat found in southern Alberta, though risks mitigated, CFIA says
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says unapproved genetically mutated wheat that is resistant to herbicides was found in southern Alberta final summer, though a problem has been mitigated.
Genetically mutated (GMO) wheat is not authorized for blurb use in Canada for flourishing or seed production. An vague series of plants were found along an entrance road, after it had been sprayed and those plants survived.
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David Bailey, CFIA plant prolongation multiplication director, said the group is not speculating where a plants came from.
“It was found on a side of a road, not in a margin of production, so it is a really removed footprint, a really tiny space. It is not in prolongation and it is not in a Canadian pellet or seed system,” Bailey pronounced Thursday.
The risk of cranky decay with non-GMO product has been isolated, he added.
“We have finished poignant surveys during all of a margin that surrounds that plcae as good as all of a product that was grown on a plantation in a prior flourishing season, all of that came behind negative.”
Bailey said the CFIA will work with a land owner, and it will be monitored for 3 years, and all of a plants that were found final year have been destroyed.
In 2013, several Asian countries temporarily criminialized U.S. wheat imports after genetically mutated wheat was found suddenly in a margin on an Oregon farm.
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