Just the Answer - Helen Wallace, GeneWatch UK
By: Ben Cooper | 23 June 2010
Helen Wallace, director of genetics campaign group GeneWatch UK, resigned from the Food Standards Agency's Steering Committee on GM on the grounds that the consultation process the FSA planned was "nothing more than a PR exercise on behalf of the GM industry". In this month's Just the Answer, she tells just-food why she resigned and what she feels is wrong about how the FSA is approaching GM.
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Helen Wallace, director of genetics campaign group GeneWatch UK, resigned from the Food Standards Agency's Steering Committee on GM on the grounds that the consultation process the FSA planned was "nothing more than a PR exercise on behalf of the GM industry". In this month's Just the Answer, she tells just-food why she resigned and what she feels is wrong about how the FSA is approaching GM.
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