Transgenics contaminate a third of Brazil’s traditional corn in semiarid region

Mongabay
Sep 1, 2023, 8:39 am218 pts
Eighteen years after transgenic crops were legalized in Brazil, a new study has warned that traditional corn crops in Brazil’s semiarid Northeast are increasingly contaminated. The study found that of the 1,097 samples collected in 138 municipalities in the Northeast, more than a third contained genetically…

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