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> From:	"Faisal Moola" <fmoola@sprint.ca>
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> Subject: Genetically Engineered Trees
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> This is a recent article on emergency plans in Europe to limit the impacts
> of accidental  release of genetically modified organisms into the
> environment.
> 
> peace
> 
> Faisal.
> 
> INDEPENDENT (London ) April 4
> 
> 
> By Marie Woolf, Political Correspondent
> 
> EUROPEAN governments are drawing up contingency plans for a nuclear
> fallout-style emergency involving genetically modified organisms.
> 
> A five-point Emergency Response Plan has been formulated by the European
> Commission, designed to cope if genetically modified plants result in
> widespread illness or the death of wildlife.
> 
> The draft directive, set to be adopted by ministers across Europe,
> includes plans to "decontaminate" affected areas and destroy plants and
> animals exposed to GMOs. The plan is designed to prevent a human health
> disaster and stop genetically modified plants breeding wildly with
> native  species
> 
> The proposed five-point plans are similar to those used in the case of
> accidental nuclear leaks and will be a requirement of any new
> application to release genetically modified organisms once the law comes
> into force.
> 
> So a company wishing to plant GM seeds in Britain will have to present a
> detailed strategy for coping with a disaster. This must include:
> 
> 1. Methods and procedures for controlling the GMOs in case of unexpected
> spread;
> 
> 2. Methods for decontamination of the areas affected, e.g. eradication
> of the GMOs;
> 
> 3. Methods for disposal or sanitation of plants, animals, soils, etc.
> that were exposed during or after the spread;
> 
> 4. Methods for the isolation of the area affected by the spread;
> 
> 5. Plans for protecting human health and the environment in case of the
> occurrence of an undesirable effect.
> 
> 
> "The case for the need for these crops has not been thought out, but
> governments are already gearing up for emergency decontamination
> operations," said Tony Juniper, campaigns and policy director of Friends
> of the Earth. "This is redolent of a 1960s nuclear civil defence plan."
> 
> The new directive will amend the current EU law on genetically modified
> crops. The proposed changes, which have Government backing, will be
> discussed by European environment ministers in June, but could take
> years to implement.
> 
> "Ministers are clearly fore-seeing major problems with GMOs, or they
> wouldn't be considering these action plans," said Norman Baker, the
> Liberal Democrat environment spokes-man. "With large farm-scale trials
> in the UK only days away'', contingency plans were "a matter of urgency",
> he said.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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