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100% of members of UK govt's #GMO advisory body have potential or actual conflicts of interest—List of interests reads like a Who's Who of the British biotech industry! gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la… Image
All members of ACRE have COIs that may enable them to benefit from any weakening of the regs around GMOs + in spite of ACRE's role in regulating environmental releases of #GMOs, only 1 of ACRE's panel has expertise in ecology and none seem to have ANY in environmental toxicology. Image
Get this! Jim Dunwell, the chair of this "independent" #GMO advisory body to the UK govt, was a founding member of the biotech industry-funded lobby group CropGen that says its mission is "to make the case for GM crops and foods." He also gets a pension from GMO giant Syngenta.
Meet Alan Raybould—another member of ACRE, the UK govt's "independent" #GMO advisory body. Raybould is a veteran of GM giant Syngenta, where his speciality was getting its #GMOs approved & boosting their public "acceptance". He also gets a Syngenta pension gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la…
Meet Ben Raymond—another member of the UK govt's "independent" #GMO advisory body. He has funding from GM giant Bayer Crop Science & a BBSRC industrial partnership award with Corteva Agriscience. Corteva dominates the #CRISPR gene editing patent landscape gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la…

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