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What the regulators and the public are not yet aware of is that the technology introduces serious hazards over and above those of GM crops in general [7]. The terminator-gene barnase is a universal poison that breaks down RNA, an intermediate in the expression of all genes. The recombinase, in theory, breaks and rejoins DNA at specific sites, but is far from accurate, so it has the potential to break and rejoin DNA inappropriately, thereby scrambling the genome in unpredictable, lethal ways.
After a report in the Scottish press, a spokesperson from the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) denied that the enzyme barnase was in the crops undergoing field trials. The DETR spokesman was reported to have said that it was the barnase gene and not the enzyme which was present in "a few oil seed rape crops currently being trialled." and that "where the enzyme would be poisonous, the gene was not harmful."[8] Obviously, he did not know that the barnase gene had to be expressed to make the barnase enzyme in order to have male sterility. Furthermore, the barnase gene could spread, either by crossing with related species, or by the GM DNA being taken up and integrated into the genome of unrelated species, and it may become expressed in other cells and tissues, with potentially fatal consequences.
On seeing our press releases,[9] Dr. Ian Woiwod of Rothampstead, a scientist
involved in overseeing the UK field trials, indicated that he had no knowledge
of such crops in the field trials [10]. Indeed, in a correspondence describing
the trials published in Nature in 1999 [11], there was no mention of the
male sterile spring and winter oilseed rape. Have our regulators been kept
in the dark? During a workshop at the first meeting of the Intergovernmental
Committee on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety held in Montpellier last
December [12], the UK Government delegate from the DETR actually thanked
MWH for providing the information on terminator crops.