The EU food safety agency`s scientific panel on GMO has published an opinion that "considers that Bt11 maize will not havean adverse effect on human and animal health or the environment in the context of its proposeduse." The GM maize variety of Syngenta has recently triggered a scandal over planting and export of an illegal variety "Bt10", which had been mistaken for Bt 11 for 4 years. Green groups called the opinion "another rubber stamp of a highly biast group of GM scientists".</p><p><a href="http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/gmo/gmo_opinions/922_en.html">E F S A: Opinion of the GMO Panel on use of Bt11 for cultivation, feed and industrial processing</a>