|
| GE Free
New Zealand in Food & Environment, 23rd September
2004
No system to recall Monsanto Corn as confusion reigns
Confusion reigns at the authorities supposedly responsible for any recall
of Monsanto's MON 863 corn which was found to have harmed rats in feed
-trials.
It is clear that authorities have no action-plan to track or recall the
product irrespective of how serious the threat to human health is found to
be.
GE-Free NZ consumer representative on the Food safety forum has even had a
request from NZFSA for information about when FSANZ authorised the product
to enter the food chain, and appear to have not the slightest idea where
it might be used or consumed.
"We hope for the sake of the public and the integrity of the food supply
that the repercussions are not serious," says Jon Carapiet from GE free NZ
in food and environment.
"We just do not know and that is why the inadequate system in place for
tracking and recall is so concerning."
What happens next time, or for that matter right now, when a serious
threat is identified and the authorities throw up their hands and say they
do not know what to do?
It is simply not good enough. These authorities are playing Russian Roulette with the food supply and they don't even know how many bullets
there are, or in which guns.
We need the system to be re-hauled immediately and for those who have
failed to deliver adequate systems so far to resign.
It is time the government took action instead of pretending nothing ever
goes wrong so we don't need a recall system that can actually be
implemented.
Jon Carapiet 09 815 3370
Claire Bleakley 06 308 9842
Back
to Press Release Directory
|
|
