26 November 2003 GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials
26 November 2003 GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials
EVIDENCE SESSION
Wednesday 3 December 2003
The Committee will be taking evidence from:
3.50pm: Professor Christopher Pollock, Chairman of the Scientific Steering Committee
Dr Nick Brickle, Secretary, Scientific Steering Committee
Dr Brian Johnson, Head of the Agricultural Technology and Land Management Group, English Nature, and Assessor of the Scientific Steering Committee from May 1999 - Nov. 2000
and
Dr Mark Avery, Director of Conservation, RSPB
This will form part of its inquiry into GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials, announced in a press release on 18 September 2003.
This session will be open to the public on a first come, first served basis. Room allocations are subject to change at short notice. Please call the Committee Information Line on: 020 7219 2033 for confirmation nearer the time.
Notes for Editors
1. The Committee announced its inquiry into GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials on
18 September 2003.
2. Details of all the Committee's inquiries, together with its Reports and other publications, are also available on the Committee's
website.
3. The Committee last reported on GM Food in 1999 before the farm scale trials commenced. Please see
GMOs and the Environment: Co-ordination of Government Policy, (HC 384, session 1998-99).