Food code not grounded on best available science

Scoop: Food code not grounded on best available science:

"Monsanto has applied to FSANZ for LY038 to be permitted in the food supply, but has declared that its intention is to market LY038 as animal feed. INBI believes LY038 is the first genetically modified crop plant substantially different in its nutritional profile to be considered for approval as a human food. INBI recommends that safety studies be conducted using GM corn that"

The University of Canturbury in NZ is quite right to say a proper risk assessment has to be made of GM food, even when it is used for animals. The animals are part of our food chain. Monsanto is taking over quite a lot of the seed and herbicide market and cannot be criticised for making business, but there have been so many stoies of GM crops and how bad they are and how hard it has been for farmers to grow them...why on earth would you invest in them? They don't seem to have a good track record at all and would probably not be good food for animals. In any case, people need to consider these things carefully and the scientists need to do their long term studies.