The cultivation of genetically altered barley on an area in Thulendorf in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is illegal. The genetic engineering critic Jörg Bergstedt raises this reproach. Because the operator of the cultivation besides several safety conditions injured, demands Bergstedt, to terminate whose attempts all. Now permission and supervisory authority would have the procedures to examine and act.
In Thulendorf the University of pouring continued their in this year since 2006 disputed gene barley attempt. On 4 May 2009 it received permission for it from federal office for consumer protection and food security (BVL). To 12. May was sown. Unknown one the destroyed field few days later. The procedure is not announced. Instead becomes to 24. May again barley sown, within another range of the experimental field. This new sowing was a criminal offence, because were not removed the old barley. Afterwards two fields stood on the total attempt surface for nearly one month. Authorized however only one was, argues Jörg Bergstedt. Only as it charge places and the public prosecutor’s office investigations takes up, by the attempt operator the first field was away-squirted
In a letter to the authorizing agency BVL and the supervising authority LLAFF lists still offences against the editions of the BVL to Bergstedt beside the illegal cultivation. Thus be missing the required mouse protection fence. Also neighbours concerned were not informed and protection distances were not kept. Directly beside the experimental field stand a field with conventional barley.
Due to these incidents the reliability of the operator required in the genetic engineering law is no longer given, argues Bergstedt and demands half from the authorities to stop all cultivation attempts of the operator. With it concerns the company Biovativ, who belongs to the association to the promotion of innovative ones and lasting Agro biotechnology. Biovativ and in personnel connected companies operate several attempt surfaces at the locations Thulendorf, Lüsewitz and realizing.