Company cries foul over appearance of genetically modified wheat but scientist who found it doubts claim of sabotage.
from The Guardian
"It is a mystery that could cost the American farmer billions: how rogue genetically modified wheat plants turned up on a farmer's field in Oregon.
"The scientist who first discovered the renegade grain — by dipping a plastic strip into a tube of pulped plant, in order to check its genetics — believes the GM wheat could have entered America's food supply undetected years ago, and could still be in circulation.
"'There's a lot of potential for how it could have got into the supply,' said Carol Mallory-Smith, a professor of weed sciences at Oregon State University. 'It could have already been processed. It could have gone for animal feed somewhere or it could have gone for something else. It could have gone for storage.'
"The Department of Agriculture, which is conducting a secretive investigation into the renegade GM wheat outbreak, maintains the GM wheat remained confined to a single 125-acre field on a single farm in eastern Oregon. Officials said there was no evidence the contaminated wheat was in the marketplace. …"
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