U.S. has been exporting gen-modded corn to Britain for 4 years, only now found out

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10120918

Banned US maize seized at British ports

17.04.05 1.00pm
By Geoffrey Lean

All imports of United States corn have been stopped at British ports following the discovery that the US has been illegally exporting a banned GM maize to Europe for the past four years.

The unprecedented move, which has angered the Bush administration, follows efforts to hush-up and play down the scandal on both sides of the Atlantic.

For weeks the UK Government and the official food watchdogs have refused to look for imports of the maize, which is banned on health grounds. They have been forced to take action by the European Commission.

Yesterday the two main opposition parties blamed the delay on a pro-GM and pro-US bias in the Food Standards Agency, and pledged to correct it if they win the general election.

The scandal - the worst yet involving GM imports - centres around maize named Bt 11, which has been modified to repel a pest called the corn borer. It also contains a gene conferring resistance to antibiotics....

Has anybody heard this reported here in the States? I had to read about it in Harper's Weekly Review...