Basmati rice GM contaminated

Food manufacturers are being warned of a possible food fraud surrounding the production of imported basmati rice which could be intentionally contaminated with GMOs, according to a food industry website.
http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Food-Safety/Food-manufacturers-warned-of-GMO-rice-fraud

Richard Werran, the Managing Director of GM certification firm Cert ID, is reported as saying that unauthorised GMOs have been turning up in consignments of basmati rice from India and Pakistan. Werran suggests that the source of the contamination may be that the more expensive basmati rice is being adulterated with cheap genetically modified rice. 
http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Food-Safety/Food-manufacturers-warned-of-GMO-rice-fraud

Last November the European Union tightened controls on imports of Chinese rice products after a growing number of shipments were found to have been contaminated by unauthorised GM rice, even though GM rice has never been finally approved for cultivation in China.
http://bit.ly/vd7rg8

According to the Chinese journalist Yinghui Zhang-Carraro, some "known GM scientists" have been illegally selling 'their' GM rice seed "through companies they have stakes in, and this probably explains why GM traits have been found in recent years in China's rice products exported to Europe. The distribution of illegal GM rice seeds could be deliberate acts."
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13663

Yet in September 2011, China's major financial weekly, the Economic Observer, quoted a reliable source, close to the Ministry of Agriculture, as saying that China had suspended the commercialisation of GM rice and had no intention of letting it come to market any time in the near future.
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13654

A year earlier, the GM corporation Bayer agreed to pay U.S. rice farmers $750 million in damages because of the contamination of the nation's long grain rice crop by Bayer's experimental and unapproved genetically modified Liberty Link rice. Bayer's contamination of the U.S. rice supply caused rice farmers serious financial harm and put the U.S. rice export market in jeopardy. 
http://www.bayerricelitigation.com/