Incident details
| Region/Continent and country: |
| Oceania / Australia |
| Category of incident: |
Contamination
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| What was contaminated: |
| Food |
| GM organism involved: |
| Maize |
| Year incident occurred: |
| 2003 |
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| Route of contamination |
| Failure post-harvest segregation |
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Australia - wheat exports bound for Columbia contaminated with GM maize
Australian grains marketer, AWB Limited, noted a contamination episode in February 2003, where Australian wheat bound for Colombia was contaminated with GM maize that had been recently imported from the United States. AWB noted that this contamination brought into focus the impact of the commercialisation of GM varieties of grain in the Australian market and the potentially negative impact this may have on AWB’s ability to conduct its wheat export program.
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Further information
Parliament of New South Wales, Austalia, Genetically modified crops. Briefing Paper 19/2003 >
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