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Transgenics contaminate a third of Brazil’s traditional corn in semiarid region
A new study identified the presence of up to seven transgenic genes in single seeds of traditional, or “creole” corn from more than 1,000 samples collected in 10% of the towns in Brazil’s Caatinga.