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Revealed: How China and US ‘secretly tested genetically modified golden rice on children’

China’s health authorities are investigating allegations that genetically modified rice has been tested on Chinese children as part of a research project.

A recent scientific publication suggested that researchers, backed by the US Department of Agriculture, fed experimental genetically engineered golden rice to 24 children in China aged between six and eight years old.

The environmental group Greenpeace is demanding a stop to field trials of the genetically enriched rice, which has [...]

Govt says sorry for releasing

TOKYO (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan’s crippled nuclear complex, the plant’s operator said on Monday, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.

Reflecting growing unease about efforts to control the six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi complex, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) had appealed to French companies for help, the Kyodo news agency [...]

Reuters notes that the Japan Nuclear Agency says Greenpeace’s radiation measurements outside evacuation zone can’t be considered reliable.

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The news comes after TEPCO announced highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan’s crippled nuclear complex, as environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.

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Revealed: How China and US ‘secretly tested genetically modified golden rice on children’

Govt says sorry for releasing

Reuters notes that the Japan Nuclear Agency says Greenpeace’s radiation measurements outside evacuation zone can’t be considered reliable.

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