Wal-Mart supermarket sells the illegal transgenic rice Step on the red line of food security

Wal-Mart supermarket sells the illegal transgenic rice Step on the red line of food security
On world Consumers' Day, one comes from green peace of international environmental group (call " green peace " in the following text )Survey report,is it retail to last Wal-Mart,etc. giant last mystery offices transgenic.
On March 15, announced the latest " raw delicious food survey report in bulk in the supermarket " in green peace, this survey report claims, Wal-Mart sells illegal transgenic rice, Ito-Yokado supermarket and sells the illegal transgenic papaya. Meanwhile, on the vegetables and fruits sample that some retailers sold, detect and contain the pesticide that the country prohibited producing and using by official order.
During two Conferences held 5 days ago, the Vice Minister of Ministry of Agriculture endangers towards Ann to say, the Ministry of Agriculture has never sanctioned any kind of transgenic grain seed to import and plant to China's domestic commercialization. Meanwhile, our country does not allow commercial production and entry market circulation of the transgenic rice yet at present.
"Belong to the illegal transgenic rice in the transgenic rice that the branch sells of Hunan Changsha Wal-Mart supermarket Huang Xing South Road this time. " Green peaceful food and agricultural project director Wang WeiKang point out.
However, the commercialization about the transgenic rice has been in disputing all the time at present. The famous one of our country " Father of the hybrid rice " Academician Yuan LongPing has said, are planning to take the lead to eat and resist the transgenic rice that worms resisted diseases by oneself, and hope to convene a group of young volunteers to eat this kind of rice, undertake the risk for the scientific undertaking, for the human development.
"Wal-Mart is paying close attention to the progress of this, inside is communicating actively at present, hope to give consumers a explaination as soon as possible. " On the same day, the public relation department personage of Wal-Mart responds and claims.
Fall into " transgenosis "
Choose to announce the recent survey report in world on Consumers' Day, green peace is prepared for a long time.
From will it be October 2009 to November, peace launch the investigation to domestic 8 9 large-scale the intersection of chain and 19 door shops of supermarket of city. It is reported, in the investigation, green peace is in the raw delicious products (vegetables, fruit and rice) in bulk in the supermarket altogether Have bought 83 samples at random, and trust the professional check organization with qualification to measure and measure with the residues of pesticides the transgenic composition to these samples respectively in the counter.
Find inspection result,Wal-Mart, in last products transgenics illegal one hundred storage, Ito-Yokado. Among them,whose name is at Wal-Mart South Road, Huang Xing of Changsha shop and in in one hundred storages of Wuchang district fruit lake way the samples of shops, detect transgenic rice to sell. The intersection of Sichuan and the intersection of Chengdu and the intersection of Ito-Yokado and the intersection of supermarket and pairs of Phoebe nanmu whom shop sell to approve country transgenic papaya of place of production.
Confirm according to further news that staff reporter obtain, Huang Xing of Wal-Mart Changsha the intersection of South Road and shop sample transgenic rice obtained, manufacturer the intersection of Mi and the intersection of city and the intersection of dragon boat and the intersection of rice and factory Luo, and place of production wash the village for the intersection of Mi and the intersection of city and the intersection of safflower and the intersection of township and east Luo. It is that silver of Hubei is happy that one hundred storages of fruit lake way shops of Wuchang district of China are annotated by the transgenic rice producer detected, the place of production is the new ditch development zone of Jianli. There are only Guangdong areas, and the transgenic papaya's place of production where green peace measures in the producing region that the transgenic papaya country approves, come from Hainan, Thailand and other places separately.
Peace think GM food dispute, a lot of research report get to his long-term security out of and warn, and indicate the GM food has unpredictable consequences to the health. So, require Wal-Mart and Ito-Yokado to take action immediately, bears responsibility conscientiously.
In addition, have also found in the vegetables and fruits that the supermarket of this investigation sold that endanger several kinds of relatively big pesticide, to measure at the the intersection of food and sample mixing pesticide, remaining very much serious over 1/3. On the strawberry sample that Beijing Ito-Yokado supermarket Xizhimen shop collects, detect and contain first amine phosphorus of pesticide that the country prohibited producing and using by official order.
However, green peace has not paid announcing to professional names of check organization trusted. And Wal-Mart claims, inside is communicating actively at present.

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