July 8, 2005 

Japan finds fourth shipment of unapproved US Bt-10 corn
 

Japan has discovered a fourth shipment of unapproved US Bt-10 corn on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido following recent tests.

GM giant, Syngenta, said earlier this year that some of its corn seeds in the US had been mistakenly contaminated with Bt-10 from 2001 to 2004.

The Japanese government has proposed accepting feed grain cargoes with up to 1 percent of Bt-10 corn, to smooth the flow of imported US corn feed supplies. But the plan would still be subject to approval by Japan's Food Safety Commission, an independent agency.