[Gen-Info] Text: Wichtiger Hinweis von C. Palme, Tuebingen

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Und hier der Text v. Christoph Palme.

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   Klaus Schramm


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Datum: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:15:43 +0100
Von: "Christoph Palme" <Christoph-Palme at gmx.net>
An: kigwa.ww at web.de
Betreff: SENIOR US GMO SCIENTIST GIVES MISLEADING EVIDENCE IN 
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

SENIOR US GMO SCIENTIST GIVES MISLEADING EVIDENCE IN EUROPEAN 
PARLIAMENT


Prof. Martina Nevell-McGloughin in her introductive lecture for a 
hearing in the European Parliament on 12 Junuary 2011 portrayed the 
US regulatory system supervising GMOs as extremely well. She also 
said that the GMO risk assessment in the US would be extremely 
thorough and reliable.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqjbSL1ou3I

This statement is false. Beginning with 2007 a host of highly 
regarded federal district courts in the USA dealt a sweeping blow to 
this assertion. All those courts held that the current practice of 
the supervising authorities (especially the Animal and Plant 
Inspection Service APHIS and the USDA) infringes (among others) the 
National Environmental Protection Act NEPA, because those authorities 
didn´t conduct an environment impact statement EIS at all. Those 
decisions in July 2010 have been confirmed even by the US Supreme 
Court (Supreme Court of the United States, No. 09/475, June 21, 
2010). The effect of those decisions is that marketing consents for 
genetically modified alfalfa and sugar beet were declared null and 
void and further marketing of those products banned, because this 
would be to dangerous for the environment and - due to contamination 
risks - for non GMO farming. So US courts bely the statements of 
Nevell-McGloughin since more than 3 years! Those decisions, which 
both concerned Monsanto products rocked the whole US regulatory 
system. It is hardly imaginable that an expert like Nevell-
McGloughin, who has been working on prominent position since 1992 in 
the field of GMOs, didn´t know that,  when she gave her speech in the 
EP claiming just the opposite. This is even more true, as the first 
court order of this kind has been given by a district court in 
California (Geertson seed farms et al. vs. USDA et al, No. C 06-01075 
CRB, Feb. 13, 2007): Nevell-McGloughin has been working since 1992 at 
the University of California, Davis. 

Dr. Christoph Palme, legal advisor, court action gmos (Aktion 
Genklage) Germany, www.stopptgennahrungsmittel.de 


Dr. iur. Christoph Palme
Wissenschaftliche Beratung Umweltrecht
Legal Research Environmental Law