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ADVERSE IMPACTS OF TRANSGENIC CROPS/FOODS :A COMPILATION OF SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES WITH ABSTRACTSof independent research and monitoring strategies. In the long run, such claimsare counterproductive to the safe and responsible commercial development ofGM technology as they hinder the accumulation of biosafety data in the open,peer-reviewed literature, which is needed for both public and scientific consensusbuildingon safety issues and for improvements to the risk-assessment procedureitself. The increasing recognition of conflicts of interest as an invariable part ofmarket-oriented safety-data production, interpretation, and risk communicationalso calls for transparency and open access to safety-related data andassessments.7. Patrick van Zwanenberg and Valeria Arza (2013) : Biotechnology and itsconfigurations: GM cotton production on large and small farms inArgentina. Technology in Society.Drawing on a socio-technical systems perspective we compare the ways in whichnovel genetically modified (GM) crop artefacts, related devices and techniques,actors, practices, and institutions have been linked together, or configured, acrosstwo distinctive cotton production systems in north east Argentina, one basedaround large-scale farming and the other based around small-scale familyfarming. In the former system, new GM seeds, actors, complementary artefacts,agricultural techniques, and technical support, and modified supply markets andregulatory rules have been linked together in ways that mean agriculturalbiotechnologies perform well. In the latter system, the new GM artefacts wereunavailable, whilst conventional seeds disappeared from input markets. Instead,linkages were formed between informal seed multipliers and dealers, copiedGM seeds, of unreliable identify and poor quality, unmodified production practices,declining technical support, uncontrolled pest problems, and an absence ofregulatory oversight, resulting in a poorly performing technology. In effect, workingagricultural biotechnologies are different in the two farming systems; they havedifferent characteristics and capabilities and perform in different ways.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2013.01.0078. Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson (2013) : Regulators Discover a HiddenViral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops. Independent Science News.Synopsis: A scientific paper published in late 2012 shows that US and EU GMOregulators have for many years been inadvertently approving transgenic eventscontaining an unsuspected viral gene. As a result, 54 different transgenic eventscommercialized internationally contain a substantial segment of themultifunctional Gene VI from Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) within them. Amongthese are some of the most widely grown GMOs, including Roundup ReadySoybean (40-3-2) and MON810 Maize. The oversight occurred because regulatorsfailed to appreciate that Gene VI overlaps the commonly used CaMV 35S generegulatory sequence. The authors of the paper, working for the European FoodSafety Authority, concluded that functions of Gene VI were potential sources of(228)