CHANDIGARH: Farm activists have demanded immediate action on suspected illegal Bt Brinjal cultivation in Haryana. Sharing their findings with media persons in Chandigarh on Wednesday, the activists said that while acting on a tip-off about the same, they collected sample from the impugned farm, and conducted a lateral flow strip test for detection of Bt Cry1AC protein test which showed a positive result of the suspected sample being transgenic.
While a sample has been sent to a private testing laboratory for further confirmation, a group of representatives of farmers’ and consumers’ organizations as well as scientists from the region submitted another sample to director-general, agriculture, Ajit Balaji Joshi and director general of horticulture Arjun Saini as well as the government of India’s apex regulatory body, genetic engineering appraisal committee, demanding further investigations and action.
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