Incident details
| Region/Continent and country: |
| Oceania / Australia |
| Category of incident: |
Contamination
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| What was contaminated: |
| Seed |
| GM organism involved: |
| Cotton |
| Year incident occurred: |
| 2002 |
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| Route of contamination |
| Cross-pollination |
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Australia - an unapproved variety of GM cotton was found in GM Roundup Ready cotton seed
Monsanto's Roundup Ready GM cotton seed was found to be contaminated at <0.1% level by a different, unapproved variety of GM cotton, also tolerant to the herbicide Roundup. The contamination was considered to have arisen during breeding.
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Further information
Quarterly Report of the Gene Technology Regulator for the period 1 October to 31 December 2002, p. 21 >
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