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Sandalfoot Photography photo Former Aventis CropScience Chief Operating Officer John Wichtrich described for the attendees how the events surrounding the recall of genetically modified StarLink corn ...
None of the farmers who sold their crops to the farmers' cooperative grew the bioengineered strain called StarLink, an insect-killing corn made by France's Aventis SA. The corn is intended only ...
More StarLink genetically modified corn has been found in corn imports from the United States through testing of samples taken from cargo ships arriving in Japan between October and December and ...
and others became embroiled in a massive product recall throughout the US, as well as additional efforts to cull StarLink from exports to countries such as Japan that rejected the GM corn even for ...
USDA testing of selected samples of harvested corn have shown varying levels of contamination with StarLink, a biotech variety not approved for humans, ranging from 0 to 22 percent depending on ...
The recall of StarLink genetically modified corn could cost companies all along the food chain hundreds of millions of dollars as they attempt to find, retrieve and replace products that used the ...
The recall marks the first time the FDA has identified a white corn product as containing StarLink. Detection of the yellow variety of the corn prompted widespread recalls last fall of tortillas ...
WASHINGTON — StarLink corn, the genetically modified yellow variety ... An FDA official said the agency didn’t request a recall, but both the Kash n’ Karry and Food Lion grocery chains ...
WASHINGTON — A U.S. food recall connected to StarLink genetically altered corn has broadened to include 1.45 million pounds of baking ingredients made by the nation’s second-largest food ...
The recall, which involves about 1,600 stores across the nation, is of taco shells made for Safeway by Mission Foods Corp., of Irving, Texas. In addition to Safeway's house brand of taco shells ...
The recall was issued after taco shells containing StarLink corn were found in a Washington-area Safeway store. Mission officials said they decided to recall their products that contain yellow ...