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Independent: An insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively in the United States and other parts of the world has leached into the water of the surrounding environment. The insecticide is the product of a bacterial gene inserted into GM maize and other cereal crops to protect them against insects such as the European corn borer beetle. Scientists have detected the insecticide in a significant number of streams draining the great corn belt of the American ......
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GM maize ‘has polluted rivers across the United States’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 28th, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation