P.C. Kesavan, member of SC’s Technical Expert Committee, said that giving less time to analyse the data will amount to ‘fooling the people’
If GM mustard gets the green light from the environment ministry’s GEAC, it will become the first transgenic food crop to be commercially cultivated in India.
New Delhi: Controversy doesn’t seem to be ending for genetically modified (GM) mustard. Even as environmentalists continue to oppose it, a member of the Supreme Court’s expert committee that submitted a report on transgenic crops has now written to India’s nodal regulator for transgenic crops against making public only incomplete safety data related to field trials of GM mustard.
P.C. Kesavan, a geneticist and radiobiologist who is a member of the apex court’s Technical Expert Committee (TEC) that submitted a report to the apex court on GM crops, also said that giving less time to analyse the data will amount to “fooling the people”.