Renegade Wheat

Renegade Wheat

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
After conducting a thorough and scientifically detailed investigation into the detection last year of genetically engineered wheat growing in a single field on a single farm in Oregon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has released a briefing. Here is Bernadette Juarez, Director, Investigative and Enforcement Services for APHIS: "So far we know a couple of things. One, we think this is an isolated incident with respect to this farm in Oregon. Two, this wheat is not in commerce and three, the variety of wheat that was found in the Oregon field is not a commercial variety of wheat. We conducted extensive genetic testing on that wheat and we found that the genetic characteristics from those wheat plants are representative of wheat from a wheat breeding program but we weren't able to trace it beyond that. We have no reason to believe that this is in commerce. There are no safety concerns associated with this wheat." And now the USDA is launching another investigation into genetically engineered wheat plants discovered in July at Montana State University.

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