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PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC.
Greenpeace Lawsuit
Against Bt Plants
Lacks Scientific Merit
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A
lawsuit filed by Greenpeace
and other activist organiza
tions against genetically
engineered Bt plants lacks
scientific merit, said Jay J.
Vroom, president, American
Crop Protection Association
(AGFA).
The lawsuit, charging that
the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency violated
the law and agency regula
tions in approving Bt plants,
was filed by Greenpeace, the
International Federation of
Organic Agricultural
Movements, the Center for
Food Safety and organic
farmers. It follows a
December 1997 petition to
the EPA by the groups.
“Both the petition and the
lawsuit are totally without
merit,” said Vroom. “EPA
thoroughly assessed the safe
ty of these products or they
would not have registered
them for use by farmers.”
Since no evidence exists
that Bt plant pesticides are
toxic to humans or other tar
get organisms, Vroom said
there is no basis for altering
the regulatory status of exist
ing products or denying regis
tration of new products. In its
response to the December
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1997 Greenpeace petition,
ACPA joined with major com
modity groups in saying that
concerns about resistance
development, gene transfer,
and effects on beneficial
organisms are “hypothetical”
and that Greenpeace’s data
“apply principally to conven
tional foliar applications of
Bt, not to transgenic Bt plant
pesticides.”
Vroom noted that EPA con
cluded Bt plant pesticides
would not increase resistance
when used in conjunction
with a sound resistance man
agement plan. As a result,
the AGFA Biotechnology
Committee, which represents
the majority of the companies
registering and selling Bt
improved hybrids, has
endorsed an agreement-in
principal with the National
Corn Growers Association on
a plan for the year 2000 to
manage insect resistance to
the new Bt-corn technology.
“Bt plants offer numerous
and substantial economic,
environmental, and social
benefits,” said Vroom. “We
want to ensure proper use so
that this new important tech
nology remains available to
growers who are embracing it
with enthusiasm.”
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