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Nature 435, 561 (2 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/435561b; Published online 1 June 2005

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Ampicillin threat leads to wider transgene concern

Gundula Azeez1

  1. Soil Association, 40-56 Victoria Street, Bristol BS1 6BY, UK

We are concerned by the suggestion, in your Editorial "Don't rely on Uncle Sam" (Nature 434, 807; 2005), that the US Food and Drug Administration does not consider the presence of the ampicillin-resistance gene in Syngenta's unapproved variety of genetically modified Bt10 maize to represent a safety problem.This is not the view of the UK government's scientific advisers (the DEFRA Antimicrobial Resistance Coordination Group), who state that some important veterinary pathogens remain susceptible to ampicillin (K.

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