Peter Lutman

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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

  1. GMWatch 2007 These are the scientists who wrote to Blair (31/10/2003)
  2. FoE Biotech Mailout, March 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2 Sack Some Scientists p.7
  3. FoE Biotech Mailout, March 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2 Sack Some Scientists p.7
  4. "For an expert view", CropGen website, accessed March 18 2009
  5. FoE Biotech Mailout, March 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2 Sack Some Scientists p.7
  6. "Home Page", CropGen website, accessed March 18 2009
  7. "For an expert view", CropGen website, accessed March 18 2009
  8. FoE Biotech Mailout, March 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2 Sack Some Scientists p.7
  9. Alex Kirby, "UK Government 'should sack GM adviser'", BBC News, 16 March 2000, accessed March 19 2009