Digging deep for answers

Teagasc’s decision to carry out field tests on GM potatoes has angered the ‘Green Food Ireland’ lobby but the critical issue is that it is not planning to conduct toxicity tests, writes Dr Oliver Moore

‘THIS new GM potato research should include tests on toxicity, but it probably won’t. You can imagine how popular this type of testing is after Pusztai’s dismissal.”

So says Dr Paul Dowding, retired plant pathologist, from Trinity College Dublin. Dowding is published in numerous peer-reviewed academic journals, from 1968 onwards, in plant pathology, pollen, and air pollution.