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5. November 2007, Reuters, U.S. GMO rice caused $1.2 bln in damages
Trace amounts of genetically modified varieties of rice that were found commingled in the U.S. rice supply in 2006 caused more than $1.2 billion in damages and additional costs, the environmental group Greenpeace International said on Monday.

5. October 2007, Reuters, USDA can't pinpoint how biotech rice taint occurred
Direct cross-pollination was ruled out as the most likely entry point for LLRICE604 and Clearfield.Other possible routes include seed-mixing and human error, such as mislabeling of containers. Because the plantings at the Crowley farm took place several years ago, information is "many years old" and may never have been recorded, said Smith. There were no original field trial maps for the rice varieties, she said, as an example.
5. October 2007, USDA, Press Release, USDA concludes genetically engineered rice investigation
Investigators had hoped to identify how each GE rice line entered the commercial rice supply, but the exact mechanism for introduction could not be determined in either instance. (...) Based upon the findings of the investigation, APHIS will not be pursuing enforcement against Bayer CropScience. (see offical documents)

27 September 2007, Arkansa Democrate Gazette: Rice tests show no genetic vestiges
Early test results reveal no traces of genetically engineered rice in this year’s U. S. long-grain rice crop, according to the USA Rice Federation. The federation has estimated that about 50 percent of all U. S. long-grain rice exports were negatively affected as a result of contamination by several Bayer CropScience LibertyLink varieties. “That ranges from the Europeans, where we lost that market [of 275, 000-300, 000 tons annually ], to countries like Iraq or Japan, where we’re having to test, which incurs additional expenses,” Cummings said.

28 November 2006, Greenpeace: Thailand and Vietnam pledge not to use GM rice, India follows suit
Thailand and Vietnam, accounting for 50 percent of the 30 mio tonnes of world rice exports have signed an agreement, which includes a pledge not to introduce GM rice in their countries. India, the third largest export nation of the world, follwed with a similar announcement.

25 November, Mercury News: USDA approves genetically engineered rice found last summer
The Agriculture Department approved for human consumption a type of genetically engineered rice that had contaminated domestic rice supplies last summer. The USDA said Friday that its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service decided to deregulate the experimental long-grain rice after a review of scientific evidence indicated it was as safe as its traditionally bred counterparts.

25 November, Washington Post: Genetically Engineered Rice Wins USDA Approval
The Department of Agriculture declared safe for human consumption yesterday an experimental variety of genetically engineered rice found to have contaminated the U.S. rice supply this summer. The move by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to deregulate the special long-grain rice, LL601, was seen as a legal boon to its creator, Bayer CropScience of Research Triangle Park, N.C. The company applied for approval shortly after the widespread contamination was disclosed in August and now faces a class-action lawsuit filed by hundreds of farmers in Arkansas and Missouri.

24 November, Reuters: Bayer's GMO rice safe without oversight - USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday formally approved a strain of genetically engineered rice whose discovery in commercial stocks earlier this year triggered a food market dispute with the European Union and Japan. "The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announced that after a thorough review of scientific evidence it will deregulate genetically engineered LLRICE601 based on the fact that it is as safe as its traditionally bred counterparts," USDA said in a statement.

22 November, Washington Post: Firm Blames Farmers, 'Act of God' for Rice Contamination
In a 30-page response Bayer Crops Science offers the first clue to how the company plans to defend itself against the 15 class-action lawsuits filed by farmers, who allege that they stand to lose millions of dollars because of the contamination. Denying any culpability, the Bayer's response variously blames the escape of its gene-altered variety of long-grain race, LL601, on "unavoidable circumstances which could not have been prevented by anyone"; "an act of God"; and farmers' "own negligence, carelessness, and/or comparative fault."

15 November, GM free Cymru: New Evidence on American GM rice disaster -- scale of contamination is huge
Probably 40% of US long-grain rice is contaminated with GM varieties, according to unpublished test results. Around 9,800 tonnes of GM rice was harvested in 1999 and 2000
and transported to landfill sites.

8 November, Delta Farm Press: No Cheniere in Arkansas in 2007
We’ve discovered that some of the foundation seed we thought was free of LL601, actually has the trait. It was used to produce the seed available for planting the 2007 crop.

7 November, The News Observer: Biotech rice by Bayer said to raise danger of plant pest
When Research Triangle Park-based Bayer CropScience requested federal permission in August to market a variety of gene-altered rice, it assured itself a small, unwanted place in history: the first to seek approval for a genetically engineered food that was already, illegally, on the market.

6 November, Washington Post: Biotech Rice Saga Yields Bushel of Questions for Feds
Now, as federal regulators consider that belated application, they are finding themselves under scrutiny, too - from scientists and others who say the 20-year-old system of biotech crop oversight is failing. The Bayer lapse is the latest in a string of problems, critics note, including taco shells and other foods contaminated in 2000 with unapproved StarLink corn, the accidental release in 2002 of crops engineered to make a pig diarrhea vaccine, and the growing prevalence of "superweeds" that have acquired biotech genes that make them impervious to weed killers. Federal officials are still investigating how the experimental "LLRICE601" escaped from Bayer's test plots after the company dropped the project in 2001

4 November, Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Rice farmers biggest losers over altered rice, exec says
Roughly 40 percent of U.S. rice exports have been negatively affected by what many experts consider to be their industry's worst crisis, a USA Rice Federation official said.
Since mid-August, more than 25 federal lawsuits have been filed by farmers seeking damage payments from Bayer Crop-Science. Trade with the 25-nation European Union, an $87 million market in 2005, has stopped because of the problem. Other countries have banned U.S. rice imports, and many are requiring testing to prove that U.S. rice shipments are essentially free of material associated with LLRICE 601, Cummings said. "Roughly 41 percent of our total rice exports have been impacted by this event," he said.

2 November, Bangkok Post: Indian traders warn against GM rice
Rice traders in India have warned the government that field trials of genetically modified rice could affect millions of farmers across the country. The warning by rice traders comes just over a week after the European Union (EU) decided to compulsorily test all US shipments of long-grain rice. The EU'S decision came following a discovery that US imports to Europe were contaminated with genetically modified rice.

26 October, Delta Farm Press: Questions continue in GM rice situation
An interview with Richard Bell, head of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, on reconciling testing procedures with the EU, the rejected barge loads of U.S. rice and the most logical manner LL601 got into Cheniere.

23 October, Business Week: EU to test all US rice imports
European Union nations voted Monday to test all U.S. long-grain rice imports to make sure they don't contain genetically modified varieties that haven't been approved by the EU.

6 October, The Guardian: Stores told to remove GM rice from shelves
The government's food watchdog has changed its advice to retailers about genetically modified rice. Stores must remove any rice known to contain GM strains from their shelves, the Food Standards Agency said. The move follows ongoing concerns over the presence of GM strains in batches of long-grain rice from the US.

6 October, Capital Press: Japan's rice testing stuns industry
"Duplicative and unnecessary" is how a California rice industry leader assesses the decision by Japan to test all U.S. rice for evidence of an unapproved genetically enhanced variety.

4 October, Reuters: EU to require mandatory tests of U.S. rice imports
The European Union is set to introduce mandatory tests of rice imports from the United States following the finding of an unauthorised GMO strain in recent weeks

2 October, just-food.com: Russia - US rice imports suspended over GMOs
The Rosselkhoznadzor, the Russian agricultural inspection agency, announced on Friday (29 September) that it has stopped issuing quarantine permits for US rice because genetically modified rice, which had not yet passed safety tests, had been on sale in the US.

30 September, The Guardian: US rice kept out of Britain because of GM contamination
American rice which may have been contaminated with a controversial GM strain has been effectively blocked from the UK

29 September, Reuters: EU due to tighten import rules to keep out GMO rice
The European Union is likely to toughen up entry requirements next week for U.S. long-grain rice to avoid an unauthorised biotech strain, possibly making EU governments conduct compulsory rather than just random testing.

29 September, Reuters: Spain's Ebro suspended U.S. rice imports in August
Spain's Ebro Puleva, the world's biggest rice processor suspended rice imports from the United States after detecting genetically modified grain in a shipment. "We are importing from other countries, except for China, which also uses transgenic seeds," a company spokeswoman said.

28 September, BBC, viewpoint: GM crops are a liability not asset
The recent row over an unapproved variety of GM rice entering the food chain should act as a warning, argues Sue Mayer, director of GeneWatch UK.

28 September, Reuters: Japan widens testing of U.S. rice for illegal GMO
Japan has expanded testing of U.S.rice for an unapproved genetically modified (GMO) strain due to a lack of proof from Washington that short- and medium-grain rice are free from contamination.

21 September, AP: EU to boost checks on U.S. rice imports after Dutch report more illegal shipments
Two shipments, which had been certified as gmo-free by US authorities proved to contain LL601.
Reuters: Tainted GMO rice found in Netherlands, Belgium
Two shipments of U.S. rice held in the Netherlands and Belgium have tested positive for a strain of unauthorized genetically modified (GMO) rice, the European Commission said on Thursday. A Commission spokesman said the consignments had passed through the Dutch port of Rotterdam in August. "The U.S authorities have been informed and we will follow up," the spokesman said.

17 September, BBC: Legal challenge over GM rice in the UK
FOE will take the UK food safety agency to court as a confidential memorandum of the agency was telling supermarkets it would not test for LL601 in supermarket shelves but only in mills and shipments. Meanwhile supermarkets do withdraw suspicious rice brands.

15 September, EFSA’s GMO Panel provides reply to European Commission request on GM rice LLRICE601
The GMO Panel has evaluated the available scientific data on LLRICE601. According to the Statement of the Panel issued today there is insufficient data to provide a full risk assessment in accordance with EFSA’s GM guidance.

14. September, AP: Germany Confirms Illegal Biotech Rice
Germany's Agriculture Ministry said that its own inspections confirmed traces of the 601 strain in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Seven of the 46 examined samples contained the genetically modified rice variety, three of which were produced in the United States, the Ministry said. The origin of the other four samples is still unknown.

12. September:
Swissinfo: Genetically modified rice hits Switzerland
Infoshop news: Philippines at serious risk from illegal GMO rice contamination
Euractive: EU strives to find GMO needle in rice haystack
Rice samples taken from the market and tested in Sweden and France have also been tested positive for LL601. The two countries are so far the only to use two newly developed methods for LL601 testing, which produce much more accurate results. It is expected that once the new method is applied in other member states, which will take another one to two weeks, more samples will test positive for LL601.

12. September, Oryza: Philippines To Require Biotech Testing Of US Rice Imports
The Philippines will require testing of rice that it plans to buy from the U.S. within the month to keep out genetically modified strains. "The rice will have to be tested because locally, we haven't approved any GMO (genetically modified organism) strain for rice," Agriculture Undersecretary Segfredo Serrano told reporters Tuesday. Serrano said suppliers will have to foot the bill for testing. The Philippines will hold a tender Sept. 18 to buy around 65,000 MT of rice from the U.S. for arrival early next year.

11. September, Reuters: Tainted biotech rice found in Germany - Greenpeace
"Tests conducted by an independent accredited laboratory have confirmed the presence of Bayer's Liberty Link rice in U.S. parboiled long grain rice sold in Aldi Nord, a major German supermarket chain," it said in a statement.

11. September, Reuters: US still gauging how much GMO rice entered market
The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday it is too soon to determine how much of an unapproved genetically modified rice strain has entered the food supply after tests in the European Union and Germany detected traces of the rice. "We simply didn't have any way to gauge the extent to which this genetically engineered rice might be in the marketplace" when it was first discovered, said USDA chief spokeswoman Terri Teuber. "In terms of where it might be and where it might not be I don't think USDA is equipped in any way to assess or predict where that might be." USDA has said the department will get a better sense of how much genetically modified rice is out there through testing done by the marketplace.

8. September, USDA: US Dep. of Agriculture announces intention to deregulate (i.e. approve) LL601 rice
Centre for Food Safety: USDA to Rubber-Stamp Contamination of Food

5. September, Reuters: Illegal GM rice from China found in food products in the EU
Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have tested GM rice from China, which is neither approved in China nor in the EU or elsewhere in products sold in France, UK and Belgium. The Chinese rice contains a Bt-strain to make it resistant against insects, which has been suspected of having the potential to cause allergic reactions.
Reuters: Gene-altered rice from China found in EU - greens
Greenpeace: Greenpeace finds illegal GM rice from China in EU products

4. September, Reuters: U.S. rice variety tests positive for GMO
The foundation seed from the 2003 Cheniere variety developed by the university contained a trace amount of LLRICE 601 material, which was engineered to resist herbicides. (...) The 2003 foundation seed would have been planted throughout the southern United States to produce the 2006 crop, which farmers are now harvesting, said Steve Linscombe, a rice breeder and director of the LSU Rice Research Station. (...) Louisiana State University said it did not know how the GMO material got into the seed. Field research on Liberty Link was conducted in collaboration with Bayer CropScience, a unit of , at the LSU Rice Research Station near Crowley, Louisiana, from 1999 through 2001.

4. September,Oryza: Philippines To Buy Only Medium Grain Rice From US
The Philippines will buy medium-grain rice from the U.S. following the contamination of U.S. long-grain varieties with an unauthorized genetically modified strain, Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban said Monday. the Philippines will hold a tender on Sep. 18 to buy around 65,000 metric tons of rice from the U.S. The imports will be financed under Washington's Public Law 480 program for 2006 in which the Philippines was given $20 million in soft commodity loan. The imports are slated for arrival early next year. Last month, the European Commission tightened rules on rice imports from the U.S. following an admission by Bayer Crop Science that an unapproved genetically modified long grain rice grown in 2005 made it into the commercial market for human consumption.

4. September: GM rice concerns in Ghana
The Consumers Association of Ghana says GM rice from the US may have been shipped into Ghana.
Allafrica: Ghana: U.S. Long Rice Could Be GMO Contaminated, Consumer Group Alerts

1. September: Scientific dispute about potential health impacts of Liberty-Link rice
Claims by Jeffrey A. Smith, that "after you eat the GM corn, some inactive herbicide may become reactivated inside your gut and cause a toxic reaction" are dismissed by Dr Christopher Preston of the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Jeffrey A. Smith: Genetically Engineered Crops May Produce Herbicide Inside Our Intestines
Food Navigator: Scientist challenges anti-GM findings

31. August, Christian Science Monitor: When genetically modified plants go wild
Many who closely watch how biotechnology is changing agriculture, including those who see a valuable role for GM crops, are disturbed by what appears to be a series of recent incidents showing lax supervision of experimental plantings by the government and agribusinesses.

31. August, Delta Farm press: LibertyLink 601 found in Louisiana State University's foundation seed
Field research on LibertyLink was conducted in collaboration with Bayer CropScience at the LSU AgCenter’s Rice Research Station near Crowley, La., from 1999 through 2001.
Independent lab tests have confirmed a sample of 2003 foundation seed rice of the variety Cheniere grown by the LSU AgCenter contained a trace amount of genetic material from LL601.
“The LSU AgCenter’s foundation seed program has been extremely important to the U.S. rice industry. Over the years, the LSU AgCenter rice variety development program has released varieties that are among the most widely planted throughout the southern U.S. rice-growing area.”

31. August, Reuters: Unauthorised U.S. GMO rice arrived in Netherlands

28. August, Reuters: US rice farmers sue Bayer CropScience over GM rice
Rice farmers in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and California have sued Bayer CropScience, alleging its genetically modified rice has contaminated the crop, attorneys for the farmers said on Monday. The lawsuit was filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in Little Rock, law firm Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll said in a statement. The farmers alleged that the unit of Germany's Bayer AG <BAYG.DE> failed to prevent its genetically modified rice, which has not been approved for human consumption, from entering the food chain. As a result, they said, Japan and the European Union have placed strict limits on U.S. rice imports and U.S. rice prices have dropped dramatically. A Bayer representative could not be immediately reached for comment. (see US documents)

25. August, Oryza: US To Finance Philippines Rice Buys
The US Agriculture Department said on Wednesday it would provide financing to the Philippines to purchase $20 million of US rice. The purchase, which will be made using US government financing under Public Law 480, Title 1, provides for approximately 69,000 metric tons of long, medium or short-grain milled rice, brown rice for processing, or rough rice. The contracting period is Aug. 30-Sept. 30, 2006 and the delivery period is Sept. 20, 2006-Feb. 28, 2007, USDA said.

24. August, Reuters: USDA says validated Bayer test for GMO rice
U.S. government scientists certified a test by Bayer CropScience on Thursday that detects when an unapproved genetically modified rice has been mixed into commercial rice
While a small rice grower, the United States is one of the world's largest exporters, sending half of its crop to foreign buyers.
USA Rice Federation, which markets and promotes U.S. rice, has opposed the commercialization of genetically modified rice until it has gained wider consumer acceptance.
The United States is expected to produce a rice crop valued at $1.88 billion in 2006. U.S. rice growers are responsible for about 12 percent of world rice trade. Three-fourths of the crop is long grain rice, grown almost entirely in the lower Mississippi Valley.

23. August, USA Today: EU to U.S.: Keep genetically engineered rice to yourself
The European Union said Wednesday that it would require that all long-grain rice imported from the USA be certified as free of unauthorized genetically engineered grains.
Rice futures at the Chicago Board of Trade fell by more than 5% Wednesday, the sharpest one-day decline in years.
Europe imports 264,000 tons of long-grain rice from the USA

22. August, New York Times (Andrew Pollack): Unapproved Rice Strain Found in Wide Area
While this type of rice never received approval, two very similar types did — though they have not been marketed.
Riceland, which is based in Stuttgart, Ark., said the existence of a genetically engineered product in its rice was discovered in January by one of its export customers.
Bill J. Reed, a spokesman for Riceland, said in an interview yesterday that the rice was “not limited to Arkansas and Missouri’’ but had been found “throughout the southern rice-growing area.’’
Because some countries will not accept genetically modified crops they have not approved themselves, the finding could hurt American exports or require them to undergo extra testing. About half the nation’s $1.9 billion rice crop is exported.
Japan had suspended imports of long-grain rice from the United States

22. August, Reuters: U.S. rice dives as GMO issue stirs export fears
Rice prices on Tuesday tumbled 5 percent to the lowest level in nearly two months, amid fears that exports could suffer after the discovery of U.S. rice supplies tainted with unapproved genetically modified rice. Japan has already banned imports of U.S. long grain rice after U.S. government officials announced on Friday that GMO rice was found in commercial supplies. Europe, a major market for U.S. rice, was set to block unauthorized biotech rice from reaching its shores even as American farmers harvest this year's crop.

21. August Food Navigator: GM rice contaminates US food supply
Speaking at a news conference on Friday, US secretary of agriculture Mike Johanns confirmed that the contaminated rice was a 2005 crop, but said that it was premature to estimate what level of spreading or contamination had occurred. He was also unable to clarify where the crop originated from. “In terms of the location of this sample and the information I've provided I can tell you very candidly, I didn't ask where this sample came from. I know it's long grain rice. I can't tell you if that came from this state or that state. The information that was provided to me was sufficient for purposes of ascertaining the safety of this..."

Official Documents:     

Bayer

27 November 2006 Bayer CropScience comments on the deregulation of LLRICE601 in the USA

19 September 2006 Comments of Bayer CropScience on LLRICE601

18 August 2006 Bayer Crop Science comments on the identification of traces of biotechnology rice in U.S. rice samples
ongoing, Bayer 2006 Crop Science Rice information and resource web-site

US documents

5 October 2007, USDA APHIS, Report of LibertyLink Rice Incidents
5 October 2007, USDA APHIS, Lessons learned
5 October 2007, USDA APHIS, Transcript of Technical Briefing on Rice Investigation with Cindy Smith, Administrator, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service

28 November 2006 U.S. Rice Industry Recommendations to Reestablish Supply and Marketability of U.S. Rice

24 November 2006 US Department of Agriculture: USDA deregulates line of genetically engineered rice
24 November 2006 US Department of Agriculture: USDA provides upddate for farmers on genetically engineered rice
24 November 2006 US Department of Agriculture / Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS): Finding of No Significant Impact - Extension on Nonregulated Status to Rice Line LLRICE601

24 November 2006 CFS: USDA gives rubber-stamp market approval to genetically engineered rice contaminating food supply

November 2006 ISB: Wild Rice

11 October 2006 CFS: Comments on Bayer's petition for deregulation of LL601

14 September 2006 CFS : USDA Urged to Deny Approval of Illegal Genetically Engineered Rice Found in Food Chain
14 September 2006 CFS: Petition for Banning All "LibertyLink" Rice as Plant Pests

8 September 2006 US Department of Agriculture: Invitatiion for Bids (Rice in Bags) to the Philippines - Purchase Authorization (last amended 18 September)

30 August 2006, various plaintiffs: Geeridge Inc.vs. Bayer crop science, first class action law suite on LL Rice contamination
To pay compensation, be punished and obliged to decontaminate fields and harvest and storage facilities of plaintiffs and prevent further spread

23 August 2006 US Department of Agriculture: Philippines to purchase $20 million of U.S. rice under Public Law 480, Title I.

18 August 2006 US Department of Agriculture: Statement by Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns Regarding Genetically Engineered Rice

18 August 2006 U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Statement on Report of Bioengineered Rice in the Food Supply

18 August 2006 USDA Factsheet genetically engineered rice

January 2006, USDA Office of Inspector General: Audit report: APHIS Controls Over Issuance of Genetically Engineered Organism Release Permits
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture "Current (USDA) regulations, policies and procedures do not ensure the safe introduction of agricultural biotechnology". The USDA audit report says the agency "lacks basic information" on where field tests are or what is done with the crops after they are harvested.

EU documents

6 November 2006, Food Standard Agency, UK: Legal challenge on GM rice

24 October 2006, FoE Europe: American rice imports must be tested for GM contamination

16 October 2006, Greenpeace: Thailand benefits from GMO rice contamination scandal

9 October 2006, Finnish Food Safety Authority (EVIRA): Evira investigated presence of genetically modified rice in foods and feeds marketed in Finland

21 September 2006, Greenpeace: False GM-free Certification for US rice - EU should stop all rice imports from US
21 September 2006, FoE Europe: Outrage as illegal genetically modified rice slips through the net

15 September 2006, EFSA’s GMO Panel provides reply to European Commission request on GM rice LLRICE601
The GMO Panel has evaluated the available scientific data on LLRICE601. According to the Statement of the Panel issued today there is insufficient data to provide a full risk assessment in accordance with EFSA’s GM guidance.

11 September 2006, EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, Summary record of the 11th meeting on 11 September 2006
The presence of the genetically modified rice LLRICE601 in food and feed products on the European market is, even at extremely low levels, illegal. Rice containing LLRICE601 is not allowed to be placed on the market. The European Commission has raised awareness of industry at EU level with respect to their responsibilities of ensuring that the food they produce is safe in all Member States and will continue to do so. Member States will do the same at national level. On the basis of the knowledge available today, the Standing Committee agreed that, as a matter of priority, it was necessary to ensure that illegal GM long grain rice originating from the USA does not enter the EU market or is not further distributed in the food chain. In case of unfavourable results the contaminated long grain rice as defined in Article 1 of Decision 2006/601/EC should be withdrawn from the market.

1 September 2006, FoE Europe: Bayer, not taxpayers, must pay for GM rice testing in Europe

30 August 2006, EU Community Reference Laboratory: Detection of rice GM events containing p35S::bar sequences and Detection of rice GM event LLRICE601

23 August 2006 FoE Europe: Press release on EU imports 23 August

23 August 2006 EU Commission: Commission requires certification of US rice exports to stop unauthorised GMO entering the EU

23 August 2006 EU Commission: Questions and Answers on the finding of unauthorised GM rice on the US market

21 August 2006 EU Commission: Letter to the USDA

Japanese documents

August 19, 2006 Announcement of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Office of Import Food Safety

Canadian documents

Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Update - Genetically Engineered Rice Unintentionally Released in the US

Background:     

Bayer contaminates our Rice
A summary of the events prepared by Greenpeace International (8. October 2007)

USA-Rice Federation (US rice industry association) What About Those Genetically Engineered Long-Grain Rice Grains Found in Commercial Samples?

AgreVo, 1998 (now Bayer) Petition for deregulation of Liberty Link Rice (172 page application and risk assessment)

APHIS,1999 , deregulation of herbicide tolerant rice LLRICE06, LLRICE62

Overview on all deregulated crops in the US

EFSA, 2004, last update 16 July 2006: Summary of the dossier EFSA GMO UK 2004 - 04 (LLRICE62)

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, September 2005: The risks of Bayer’s genetically modified LLRICE62 rice

Biosafety Clearinghouse (CBD) Unique Identification Registry - Liberty Link™ Rice - ACS-OSØØ1-4 - LLRICE06

USDA September 14, 2004 Workshop on Confinement of Genetically Engineered Crops During Field Testing Greenbelt MD USA

Abstracts (see also presentations at workshop page):

Opportunities for confinement of rice - Donna Mitten, Bayer Crop Science full presentation

Dynamics of Pollen Dispersal and Confinement in U.S. Rice. DAVID R. GEALY USDA-ARS, DB NRRC, Stuttgart, AR

Gene containment via process management - John Nelsen, Rice Tech

Gene flow from Oryza sativa to wild relatives of rice and weedy rice under tropical conditions, Ana M. Espinoza, University of Costa Rica