Peter Lutman
Dr Peter J. W. Lutman is Head of the Weed Ecology Research Group at Rothamsted Research.[1] Rothamsted Research (formerly IACR) is part of a consortium of three research groups which carried out the UK government's farmscale trials on three GM crops. The consortium had contracts worth GBP3.3 million with the government for this work.[2]
Lutman was a co-author of a report to the government on the progress of the trials.[3]
Lutman also works for CropGen,[4][5] an initiative launched by the biotechnology industry to
- make the case for GM crops and foods by helping to achieve a greater measure of realism and better balance in the UK's public discussions on agriculture and food.[6]
Another scientist from Rothamsted, Dr Nigel Halford, is also part of CropGen, as is ex-Rothamsted scientist, Dr Guy Poppy.[7] Scientists on the CropGen panel are paid "honoraria" for their work as panel members.[8][9]
Lutman is technical secretary of the BCPC (the pesticide industry group formerly known as the British Crop Protection Council) Research & Development Subcommittee (Weeds). The BCPC's corporate members include the Crop Protection Association, comprising all the major agrochemical/GM companies such as Bayer, BASF, Dow, Monsanto and Syngenta.
Notes
- ↑ GMWatch 2007 These are the scientists who wrote to Blair (31/10/2003)
- ↑ FoE Biotech Mailout, March 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2 Sack Some Scientists p.7
- ↑ FoE Biotech Mailout, March 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2 Sack Some Scientists p.7
- ↑ "For an expert view", CropGen website, accessed March 18 2009
- ↑ FoE Biotech Mailout, March 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2 Sack Some Scientists p.7
- ↑ "Home Page", CropGen website, accessed March 18 2009
- ↑ "For an expert view", CropGen website, accessed March 18 2009
- ↑ FoE Biotech Mailout, March 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2 Sack Some Scientists p.7
- ↑ Alex Kirby, "UK Government 'should sack GM adviser'", BBC News, 16 March 2000, accessed March 19 2009