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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2278044.ece

The Independent February 17, 2007

Suppressed report shows cancer link to GM potatoes
By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 17 February 2007

Campaigners against genetically modified crops in Britain last are calling
for trials of GM potatoes this spring to be halted after releasing more
evidence of links with cancers in laboratory rats.

UK Greenpeace activists said the findings, obtained from Russian trials
after an eight-year court battle with the biotech industry, vindicated
research by Dr Arpad Pusztai, whose work was criticised by the Royal Society
and the Netherlands State Institute for Quality Control.

The disclosure last night of the Russian study on the GM Watch website led
to calls for David Miliband, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs, to withdraw permission for new trials on GM potatoes to
go ahead at secret sites in the UK this spring. Alan Simpson, a Labour MP
and green campaigner, said: "These trials should be stopped. The research
backs up the work of Arpad Pusztai and it shows that he was the victim of a
smear campaign by the biotech industry. There has been a cover-up over these
findings and the Government should not be a party to that."

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