Biotech industry warned to take heed of consumer concerns, Knight Ridder/Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 22, 2001

Majority of Americans Favor Biofood Labels, Reuters, February 23, 2001

Bush administration considering creation of Biotech Coordinator, Knight Ridder/Tribune, Boston Globe, February 23, 2001

Predicted Failure of Mandatory Labels for Genetically Modified Foods, SCOPE GM Food Controversy Forum, January 20, 2001

FAO report reveals GM crops not needed to feed the world, August 2000

US data reveals UK GM trials unscientific, Natural Law Party Wessex overview of the abstracts from the 1998 - 2000 Meetings of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA), Volume 38-40, 2000

The Debate Over Food Biotechnology: Is a Societal Consensus Achievable? Presented at the Symposium on Biotechnology Communications: Fortune or Fiasco? at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), San Francisco February 19, 2001 by Edward Groth III, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Consumers Union of United States, Inc.

The ecological risks and benefits of genetically engineered plants, Science 290: p.2088-2093, December 15, 2000 (pdf 315K)

U.S. trade association documents international GMO labeling initiatives and urges members to help "defeat" Mexican mandatory labeling bill, January 19, 2001

More US Consumers Expect Biotech Benefits: Mixed Feelings, But Not Major Concern over Labeling, International Food Information Council Foundation (IFIC) Background, February 2001

The fate of forage plant DNA in farm animals: a collaborative case-study investigating cattle and chicken fed recombinant plant material, European Food Research and Technology, Abstract, Volume 212 Issue 2 (2001) pp 129-134

On the fate of orally ingested foreign DNA in mice: chromosomal association and placental transmission to the fetus, Abstract, Mol Gen Genet (1998) 259: 569-576

Letter from Dr. Gordon Conway to Greenpeace in response to Dr. Vandana Shiva's Report, "The Golden Hoax" (pdf 7K)

Golden Rice and the Greenpeace Dilemma -- Second Response to Greenpeace's statement, "Genetically Engineered 'Golden Rice' is Fool's Gold", from Prof. Ingo Potrykus, Feb. 15, 2001