Academics unhappy with GM plant report

WASHINGTON - If both sides in the war over GM plants were looking for complete vindication in the report on "Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants" by the National Academy of Sciences, it was not meant to be.

Although the NAS report issued last week largely found that transgenic plants did not threaten human health or the environment, the academy's panel did call for improved efforts to address dietary or toxicological concerns, and criticized the USDA's deregulation of a virus-protected squash despite concerns over the possibility that viral resistance could be transferred to weedy relatives...