Nobel winner calls for GMO action

BRUSSELS - One of the winners of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has called for strong government action in launching an education campaign against what he says are lies about genetically modified organisms.

In a recent email interview, Sir Richard J. Roberts, who is spearheading the effort, said since a letter signed by over 100 Nobel laureates in support of GMOs was published at the end of June last year, "a number of the anti-GMO groups, including Greenpeace, are a little less active than they were. Increasingly we are seeing less vitriolic comments coming from them as more GMO products are released."

The number of Nobel laureates who signed the letter has increased from fewer than 110 at the end of June 2016 to 133 two years later.