Syngenta contaminates US maize with illegal GM variety

Publication date: April 2005

Summary
Swiss chemical giant Syngenta has admitted it sold hundreds of tonnes of an illegal variety of GM maize to farmers in the USA over the past four years. The illegal GM crop, called Bt10, was modified with a gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, which makes the crop produce its own pesticide to kill insects.