4 December 2003 GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials
4 December 2003 GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials
EVIDENCE SESSION
Wednesday 10 December 2003
The Committee will be taking evidence from:
3.50pm:
Dr Roger Turner, Chairman of SCIMAC and Chief Executive of the British Society of Plant Breeders
Mr Daniel Pearsall, Secretary, SCIMAC
Dr Paul Rylott, Head of BioScience UK, Bayer CropScience
Dr Colin Merritt, Biotechnology Development Manager, Monsanto
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.
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Notes for Editors
1. SCIMAC is the acronym for Supply Chain Initiative on Modified Agricultural Crops, a grouping of industry organisations along the UK farm supply chain.
2. The Committee announced its inquiry into GM Food - Evaluating the Farm Scale Trials on
18 September 2003.
3. Details of all the Committee's inquiries, together with its Reports and other publications, are available on the Committee's
website.
4. 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).