Biotech giant fined
Syngenta has been fined $375,000 by the US Department of Agriculture for mistakenly selling an unauthorised strain of genetically engineered maize. The rogue corn produces the same bacterial protein as an authorised strain, but the gene responsible is at a different location in the plant’s DNA.
Park burn
Investigations are under way into how attempts to burn 20 hectares of bush as a safety measure in Wilsons Promontory National Park, the southernmost point of mainland Australia, ran out of control. The fire, which started on 1 April and was still burning 10 days later, has laid…
