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To: JGoren who wrote (2230)	6/28/1999 7:09:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2539

Australia Gives Green Light to Entry of New Gene Altered Crops Bloomberg News June 27, 1999, 6:40 p.m. ET Sydney, June 28 (Bloomberg) -- The Australian government will allow farmers to grow more genetically modified crops, warning that the nation could fall behind its competitors if it didn't allow their entry, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The new policy paves the way for the introduction of herbicide resistant varieties of canola, clover and cotton and an insecticide resistant strain of peas, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed government sources and a campaigner against genetically modified crops, Bob Phelps. Other plants which could soon be expected on the Australian market include genetically modified potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, sugarcane, apples, poppies and lupins, the paper reported. Ingard Cottonseed, which has a resistance to the heliothis moth pest, was the first genetically altered crop in Australia, introduced in 1996 by U.S. biotechnology company Monsanto Co. (Sydney Morning Herald, 6/28, p.1, www.smh.com.au)