StarLink Genetically-Modified Corn Controversy

  1. Farmers' Liability for GMO Crops (pdf)
  2. Europeans Adopt Tough New Rules For GMO Foods (2/15/2001)
  3. Aventis Fires Top Managers in Wake of StarLink Scandal (2/12/01)
  4. 44 Americans Claim StarLink Corn Made Them Ill
  5. Latest News About the StarLink GE Corn Scandal
  6. EPA Advisory Panel Reports on StarLink Corn (December 5, 2000)
  7. CAST:  Voluntary Recall of Taco Bell Taco Shells Containing StarLink Corn
  8. Aventis Inks StarLink Settlement: Farmers, Elevators to get Millions
  9. StarLink said to be contained
  10. Missouri starts testing service for StarLink
  11. Japan finds more Bt corn in shipments
  12. StarLink said to be contained
  13. Biotech jeopardizes world's food supply
  14. Missouri Attorney General wants Aventis to post bond
  15. Scientists urge more Bt scrutiny
  16. Biotech corn problems hurting exports
  17. Lack of regulation making it hard to keep StarLink out of nation's food supply
  18. EPA promises rigorous review of biotech corn
  19. StarLink corn: How it reached the food supply
  20. Growers grapple with challenges of handling GMOs
  21. Biotech labeling suit dismissed: FDA policy on gene-altering stands
  22. Unapproved corn found in tacos (September 18, 2000)
  23. Aventis CropScience extends deadline for farmers to file for marketing costs
  24. StarLink Corn Information from the Illinois Department of Agriculture
  25. Acceptability in Commercial Channels of GMO Hybrids
  26. Further Discussion on Acceptability in Commercial Channels of GMO Hybrids
  27. EPA's Biopesticides News and Topics Website
  28. StarLink:  More Bad News for Biotech
  29. Possible Human Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Bt Crops
  30. Aventis on Allergens and the Protein Allergen in StarLink Corn
  31. Aventis' website of press releases about the StarLink controversy
  32. BSE and GMOs:  Facts and Fantasies 
  33. Is There A Future For Genetically Engineered Food?
  34. Consumer Groups Shouldn't Reject Biotech (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
  35. StarLink Corn and Food Allergies:  Statement to EPA by Michael Hansen
  36. Comments on the Human Health and Product Characterization Sections of EPA's Bt Plant-Pesticides Biopesticides Registration Action Document
  37. FOOD SAFETY REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE UNITED STATES: DIFFERENT CULTURES, DIFFERENT LAWS, by Marsha A. Echols.  Summer, 1998, 4 Colum. J. Eur. L. 525, 13,302 words.
  38. BIOTECH POLLUTION: ASSESSING LIABILITY FOR GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP PRODUCTION AND GENETIC DRIFT, by Richard A. Repp.  2000, 36 Idaho L. Rev. 585, 20,077 words or 37 pages.  (good discussion of liability theories)
  39. DIVERGING VIEWS OF DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TOWARD THE PATENTABILITY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, by Kevin W. McCabe.  Fall, 1998, 6 J. Intell. Prop. L. 41, 13,319 words.
  40. CHILLING OF THE CORN:  AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE FACE OF U.S. PATENT LAW AND THE CARTAGENA
    PROTOCOL, by Cliff D. Weston.  Summer, 2000, 4 J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 377, 18,965 words.
  41. "GMO:" Genetically Modified Organism or Gigantic Monetary Obligation?  The Liability Schemes for GMO Damage in the United States and the European Union, by A. Bryan Endres.  August, 2000, 22 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 453, 27,716 words or 60 pages.  (good discussion of liability theories)
  42. "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?" Corporate Liability for the International Propagation of Genetically Altered Agricultural Products, by Stephen Kelly Lewis.  Spring, 1997, 10 Transnat'l Law. 153, 28,003 words or 52 pages.  (good discussion of liability theories)
  43. Biotechnology Through the Eyes of an Opponent: The Resistance of Activist Jeremy Rifkin, by Paul S. Naik.  Spring, 2000, 5 Va.
    J.L. & Tech. 5, 26133 words.
  44. Class Actions and Social Issue Torts in the Gulf South, by Francis E. McGovern.  June, 2000, 74 Tul. L. Rev. 1655, 11108 words.

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