SIR Gustav Nossal, the former Australian of the Year chosen to head the Victorian Government’s panel that recommended lifting bans on some genetically modified crops, is the founder of a business designed to reap commercial gain from biotechnology. [...] Sir Gustav’s role as a founder and director of Foursight, a consultancy that links bioscience research with commerce, has provided ammunition for his critics in the war of words over GM food. ”It should have been on the public record,” said a spokesman for the Biological Farmers of Australia, Scott Kinnear. ”He’s the director of a commercial company which could stand to benefit from the lifting of the ban. He’s not independent.”