GM Watch 9/4/15
EFSA GMO Chair Fails to Disclose his Position in Pro-GM Letter
The Independent newspaper concluded its recent pro-GMO series of articles with another piece of misleading hype about the “potential” of GMOs, in the form of a published letter to the editor. The letter scathingly dismissed NGOs’ concerns about the pro-GMO articles as “half-truths”. No surprise there, you might think, except that the GMO promoter who penned this letter was none other than Joe Perry, the chair of the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) GMO Panel, which assesses the safety of the GMOs submitted for European approval.