Conclusions

1. The seeds were contaminated and the Government knew about it.

• Dr Hannah's report to the Government confirmed the presence of GE on 5 December 2000
• False positives and soil contamination were considered and ruled out by Dr Hannah in his report. Soil contamination was ruled out by GeneScan in their letter 5 December letter.
• If there was confusion, why were no further tests conducted? The Precautionary Principle should have been instigated if there was uncertainty. If the science was uncertain, the seeds shouldn't have been planted out.

2. The Government covered it up at the time by:

• Denying the presence of GE contamination
• Changing the threshold to accommodate a level of contamination
• Confusing the science
• Using public relations spin

3. The Government is continuing the cover up now by:

• Denying the contamination existed by relying on their misinterpretation of the conclusions that they used at the time that contamination was below detectable levels
• Perpetuating confusion over thresholds and detectable levels of contamination
• Using the same PR lines that they developed for use at the time
• The tests that recorded positive for GE contamination are not available for public scrutiny