FLAX TESTING FOR GM material

[checking]

Okay, if that is true, then there would be an incentive to segregate for a specific market, and perform their required tests on that specific amount.

It's just that I've never knowingly pocketed a European food flax premium with the price discovery mechanisms provided by our exporting agents.

Is a Canadian farmer to believe that there is a health danger to a European toddler that happens to lick the linoleum flooring made from a trace amount of triffid flax? Or should the parent have a greater concern for the layer above it?

This smacks of the same logic that all water must be treated through drinking standards facilities when industrial users only require that the water be wet.

We are all forced to pay to protect the sap that can't understand that this water compartment or tap, or flax cargo is not to be drawn from and used for human consumption (even though another continent may not have those concerns.)

[parsley]

Ah, checking, " with the price discovery mechanisms provided by our exporting agents."


Yes, well, maybe there's a teensy weensy question producers should be asking?

[ProFarmer]

why should I have to pay for testing..... I paid dearly for BSE a problem that was not caused by ME. This problem should be hung on the makers of the flax in question including the people that developed it!!!!! Maybe CFIA could be held to acount.

[parsley]

I also think there has to be accountability. If not, the CFIA and the CGC should eb dissolved immediately.

[checking]

Only said to get your motor running, parsley!!!

Here's another. It's been shown that segregating boys from girls in the classrooms improves the test scores for the boys.

I've always believed that women were the problem. (lol)

So, what do I receive for my $105.00 contribution, and does this ever truly end?

[parsley]

If the EU is paying a dollar more for food flax, and yet there is no price discovery oR pricing bonus for food flax, hmmmm...does that mean that ALL flax is distributed and sold in the EU as food flax? hmmmm.


" motor running"
It only idles on warm sunny days like today

"improves the test scores for the boys."

Depends upon the girl doesn't it?

"women were the problem."

Always. 100% agree. LOL


"So, what do I receive for my $105.00 contribution,"

*You will earn an annual price increase for testing.
* Unless the government regulatory agencies are pressed and cajoled to enforce their regulatory tools, they will close their eyes and watch this re-occur.
*Think about a really bad GM spill.Farmers will end up paying for it. You know that. So where's the clean-up plan? Insist on one. Or you'll have inspection drones inspecting inspection drones.

"and does this ever truly end"


No

Pars

[parsley]

Checking,

Is $105.00 the cost of your test? What machine? Who actually perfoms the test? Who validates the test for Canadian flax growers? Is the price the same in every province? How many samples? Is that per farm, covering all varieties of flax? Does the test have a due date?

[parsley]

Health danger:

checking I want to enlarge this for you. You know I am unreasonably persistent, as I have recently been told (We all have our faults)LOL

If importing corporations are replacing dollar-bonus food flax (which you say you don't receive) is being quietly replaced by cheaper linoleum flax, it becomes a "health issue" to the folks who perceive it is unhealthy and also don't get what they pay for.

They look at flax as a health risk, so I translated for you why the Germans think it is..why flax eaters in the the EU thinks Triffid is a health risk:

"Why the gene contributes flaxseed resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin?

Der Leinsamen trägt eine Resistenz gegen das Antibiotikum, weil bei der Entwicklung der Sorte auf diesem Wege erkannt werden konnte, ob die Gen-Transplantation erfolgreich war (Marker-Gen).

The flax seed carries a resistance to the antibiotic, as it could be recognized in the development of the variety in this way, whether the gene transplantation is successful (marker) gene.

Das birgt jedoch die Gefahr, dass sich die Resistenz gegen das Antibiotikum in der Umwelt verbreitet und die Substanz dann für die Medizin wirkungslos wird.

However, this poses a risk of spreading the resistance to the antibiotic in the environment and the substance of the medicine will be ineffective.

Bei neueren Entwicklungen verzichten die Forscher generell auf Antibiotika als Marker-Gene.

In more recent developments give the researchers generally on antibiotics as marker genes.

i actually think it is important for Western farmers to understand why consumers in other countries and domestically as well, believe what they believe. Okay, knock me down with a stick. pars

[charliep]

For what it is worth, the European Food Safety Authority has actually approved using the genetic marker NPTII this summer. If flaxseed containing this marker were brought forward today, it wouldn't be rejected for using the marker (or at least on the science side).

<a href="http://www.efsa.europa.eu/cs/BlobServer/Statm_of_Efsa/gmo_biohaz_st_ej1108_ConsolidatedARG_summary_en.pd f?ssbinary=true">efsa ruling nptII</a>

[parsley]

I watched my words, charliep

"flax eaters in the the EU"