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I was heartened to read on PPJ of Haiti’s decision to not compromise their food sovereignty through rejecting the U.S. Governments “assistance” of Monsanto GM seed.

However, news this morning from BBC tells us that Monsanto again has issues with “quality control” through its distribution points.

A genetically modified (GM) variety of maize banned in the EU has been sown accidentally across Germany.

The NK603 variety has been planted in seven states. The seed supplier, US firm Pioneer Hi-Bred, called the level of contamination “minute”.

It is not clear how the mistake occurred, but it could cost farmers millions of euros, as crops will now have to be destroyed.

The tragedy here is that apparently the “minute mistake” was known of 4 months ago although which “officials” and “bureaucrats” are being referred to is not clear:

Greenpeace says that officials knew about the contamination in early March, but that because of bureaucratic delays farmers are only now being warned.

“This is the biggest GM crop scandal in Germany to date,” said a Greenpeace agriculture expert, Alexander Hissting. More