What should be learnt from the StarLink case?
1) GE companies and farmers in a country such as the US are unable to even live up to their own requirements and standards regarding the use of GMOs. 2) GMOs are extremely hard to effectively segregate on a field by field basis. Only regional bans and segregation measures appear realistic at this stage. 3) The US approval system even allows for the release of GMOs which are suspected to have detrimental health effects. 4) We should not trust any US corn and soybeans – they have to be considered contaminated unless proven clean. 5) Aventis must be held responsible for the damage it caused. However there are no international laws to do so at this point. 6) The so-called Biosafety protocol (biodiversity-based international rules to control the transboundary movements, transit, handling and use of genetically modified organisms) is urgently needed. 7) As long as there are GMO releases, a world-wide register of such releases must be established and accessible to the public, in order to avoi
