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World Service,09 Jul 2002,23 mins

How much can we trust scientists?

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Controversy over research on genetically modified maize in Mexico. Farmers were finding that genetically modified versions of maize were growing hundreds of miles away from those deliberately planted. Now an argument has flared over the validity of the claims and of the safety of GM food itself. It has also placed the science of GM crops themselves under the microscope.

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