date:Apr 03, 2014
ined at the time. The samples were taken from various trial farms operated by agricultural companies and institutes.
Many critics have asked what took the Hainan agency so long to publicize its detection of the illegal GM plants.
The department said that the destroyed samples and the samples under investigation came from illegal trial farms. It stressed that any trials on GM crops that have not secured government permission are banned, and those who conduct such trials will be punished in a