GM TEXTILES ON THE MARKET IN THE USA, DESPITE EUROPEAN CONCERNS
June 1st, 2008
BY MARK ROWE and MONICA DOBIE
GENETICALLY modified foods have split opinion across the world; hugely unpopular in Europe but embraced in the United States. But GM technology does not only apply to foodstuffs. Increasingly, scientists are looking at the extent to which altering the genetic components of a range of products that are used for textiles can influence the make-up of the clothes we wear.
Much of the interest at present focuses on GM cotton. In particular, bt cotton has an added bacterial gene that creates a toxin that kills American bollworms, a major ...
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