GM Contamination Register

Incident details

Region/Continent and country:

Europe / Germany

Category of incident:

Contamination

What was contaminated:

Food

GM organism involved:

Papaya

Year incident occurred:

2009

Route of contamination

Germany – unauthorised GM Papaya found.

On 19 June and again on 9 July 2009 German authorities notified other EU member states that they had found unauthorised genetically modified papaya imported into Europe from Hawaii, USA.

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Further information

2009 - Week 25 EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed >

2009 - Week 28 EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed >

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