Greenpeace USA

A peer-reviewed report commissioned by Greenpeace and released today by a team of

Swiss scientists reveals that tests submitted by the biotech companies Novartis and Mycogen to determine

whether their genetically-engineered corn could harm non-target insects were so poorly designed that there

was virtually no chance that adverse effects would be observed. Despite the flawed

methodology, EPA accepted the tests as scientific evidence that the gene-altered crop was

harmless to non-target insects, and continued to accept the same flawed testing

procedures for approval of other companies’ insect-resistant “biotech” crops.