21 April 2014 | Written by  Charles Benoni Okine, Back from Cambridge, UK | Tobacco companies turn to GMOs Tobacco companies are making frantic efforts to win the fight against their products. Consequently, they have turned to the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to get the toxins out of their raw material, tobacco, to make it less harmful for people who patronise their product. The Operations and Marketing Manager of the National Institute of Agricultural (NIAB) Innovation Farm in North Cambridge, UK, Ms Claire Pumfrey, told media fellows of the Biosciences for Farming in Africa (B4FA) on April 10 that studies were currently in progress to ensure that the toxins in the tobacco ... [Read more]