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- Demand for immediate and stringent actions: Anti-GM activists demanded that Central and State regulatory agencies immediately take action to stop the cultivation, investigate the spread of the illegal variety and destroy all such crops, seeds and saplings as dangerous biohazards entering the food chain.
- Bt Brinjal:(1) Brinjal has been genetically modified by inserting a protein gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis to give protection against certain pests.(2) Bt Brinjal was developed in India by Maharashtra-based seed company Mahyco.(3) It was on the verge of becoming India’s first GM food crop, when the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee cleared it for commercialisation in 2009.
- Demonstration of tests: Activists demonstrated the strip test that showed the vegetable has been genetically modified and added that samples have been shown to the Agriculture and Horticulture departments of the Haryana government and sent to the GEAC as well.
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The Hindu