Soil & Health and GE Free NZ are celebrating the commitment by Crown Research Institute Plant & Food Research to discontinue the genetically engineered brassica field trial at Lincoln in Canterbury less than 2 years into its 10 year consent, but say the CRI’s GE alliums field trial approval must also be revoked.

GE Free NZ President Claire Bleakley and the Soil and Health Association of NZ spokesperson Steffan Browning met with Plant & Food staff yesterday, to discuss the CRI’s internal report of its biosecurity breach at its genetically engineered brassica trial site.