GM Contamination Register

Incident details

Region/Continent and country:

Europe / Ireland

Category of incident:

Contamination

What was contaminated:

Food

GM organism involved:

Rice

Year incident occurred:

2006

Route of contamination

Failure of control systems at Bayer CropScience

Ireland � Reports unauthorised GM long grain rice from the USA

Once in September and three times in October 2006, the Irish authorities notified the EU and its Member States that it had twice identified unauthorised GM rice in shipments from the USA via the UK

For further details of the global rice contamination by LLRICE601 click here

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Further information

2006 - Week 41: EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed >

2006 - Week 38: EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed >

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