date:Sep 17, 2013
A's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) late Friday that they had confirmed a low-level presence of a genetically engineered trait in what the farmer thought was a non-GMO crop. The trait was developed by Monsanto Co. to make plants able to tolerate treatments of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller.
State agriculture officials did not say what the low level was, but in a letter to APHIS said it was within ranges acceptable to much of the marketplace.
The Roundup Ready alfalfa is appro