15.02.2010 | permalink
A plant breeding technician is accusing his former employer (the Department of Agriculture and Food WA) of getting too close to big multi-national chemical companies. He thinks this conflict of interest has resulted in ’shonky’ genetically-modified canola trials being conducted in WA last year. For more than 10 years Patrick Fels worked on the department’s canola breeding programs, but in November last year he was sacked.