BT Brinjal In 2006, Maharashtra Hybird Seeds Company submitted biosafety and efficacy data to the GEAC and applied

plied for permission to conduct large-scale trials At the same time SC imposed a ban on the on-going field trials An expert committee was constituted by GEAC to look into the concerns raised by several civil society actors SC later lifted the ban on field trials After a series of reviews the environment ministry declared a moratorium on Bt Brinjal in Feb 2010

Risk assessment Civil society has demanded that the science of risk assessment be made rigourous, independent and peer-reviewed