The UK government is to publish the long-awaited results of its farm-scale trials of genetically modified crops next month, agriculture officials said.
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The results, which will be available on 16 October, are expected to form the basis for the government’s decision on whether or not to allow the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, reported Reuters.
“The scientists who carried out the farm-scale evaluations of the three spring grown crops – maize, (sugar) beet and oilseed rape – have written up the results of a series of scientific papers,” agriculture officials said.
Eight scientific papers, each considering the effects of GM crops on the environment, are to be passed on to the government’s GM think-tank, ACRE.
ACRE will then make its recommendations to the government, but only after ACRE has held two open meetings scheduled for 27 November and 4 December.
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