The report by reputed geneticist and biosafety expert Jack A Heinemann has been submitted to the Minister of Environment and Forests, Jayanthi Natarajan, under whose charge GEAC functions. [...] His evaluation has vindicated once again the decision taken by Natarajan’s predecessor Jairam Ramesh in February 2010 to put on hold the commercial release of Mahyco’s Bt brinjal despite GEAC’s approval in 2009. Heinemann is the latest in a series of international scientists who have pointed out flaws in the Mahyco dossier on its EE-1 event.