The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and its U.S. counterpart, the EPA, recently approved a new GE corn created by Monsanto and Dow. Called SmartStax, Dow President Jerome Peribere said the corn represents "game changing technology."
A new study that was funded by the National Science Foundation indicates that a genetically modified corn (Bt corn) may be causing damage to the ecology of streams that are draining Bt corn fields.