<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>The information in this article should be of some concern to Vietnam. <br><br>Many of us remember a previous experience in November 2011, when Japanese importers
halted rice imports from Vietnam because of suspected GMO contamination. After investigation showed the claims not to be true, sales resumed, but many Vietnamese companies were damaged financially. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Within the last two weeks, South Korea joined Japan in announcing a halt on imports of
U.S. wheat after the U.S. Department of Agriculture's announced that commercial wheat
grown in the USA was contaminated with Monsanto's genetically engineered wheat.</div><div class="h5"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">
I</div>n August 2006, Japan banned U.S. long-grain rice imports after GMO contamination was discovered, resulting in a drop in rice prices of 5 percent.</span><br><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><i><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">============================<br>CHUCK SEARCY<br>71 Tran Quoc Toan, Hanoi, Vietnam<br>
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