[in the EEC beurocracy] in order to get the permit, the responsibility was shuffled from the Environment Directive to the Health and Safety Directorate. The crop (of potatoes, variety "amflora" how picturesque) isn't being grown for human consumption, but to make glue.
Of course, cross-pollination is not considered possible, which is just as well, as the safety tests carried out on this GM crop showed significant changes in in white blood cell count and reductions in thymus and spleen weight - all of these point to disturbances in the immune system which our incompetent EFSA have dismissed as irrelevant. My recollection is that GM soya also had a go at the immune system. This crop should not be allowed anywhere near the food chain. But I think it's inevitable that in the course of future human history cross-pollination is going to occur (unless we are to die out very quickly for some other reason).
I hope I've given you cause for further thought,
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The thing that most people don't get about statistics is that if there's a one in a billion chance, it will definitely happen sometime. We can't say when, maybe tomorrow, maybe not for a long time. But definitely sometime
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