Roiled by mystery GMO wheat, US races to reassure buyers

US officials raced to quell global alarm over the first-ever discovery of an unapproved strain of genetically modified wheat, working to figure out how the rogue grain escaped from a field trial a decade ago.

In the wake of news that a strain developed by biotech giant Monsanto had been found in an Oregon field late last month, major buyer Japan cancelled plans to buy US wheat while the Europe Union said it would step up testing. Worried US farmers wondered if their own fields had been contaminated.

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