Incident details
| Region/Continent and country: |
| Asia / China |
| Category of incident: |
Contamination
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| What was contaminated: |
| Food |
| GM organism involved: |
| Rice |
| Year incident occurred: |
| 2007 |
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| Route of contamination |
| Failure of control systems at Bayer CropScience |
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China – LLRICE601 found in Beijing supermarket.
November 2007 - Greenpeace collected ten U.S. food samples from two supermarkets in Beijing in August and September, and they were sent for testing by Eurofins, a Germany-based independent laboratory. The test result showed that one of the samples, Mahatma Extra Long Grain Enriched Rice, contained a herbicide resistant GE rice called LL601. The Chinese authority has not approved LL601 or any other GE rice for import or market sale.
For full details of the global rice contamination by LLRICE601 click here
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Further information
Greenpeace PR: Unauthorized U.S. genetically engineered rice found in Beijing (20 November 2007) >
U.S GMO rice found in China supermarkets: Greenpeace >
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