Corporations are now arguing that Terminator technology could be used to stop unwanted contamination from genetically modified plants. This is not true. Not only will Terminator fail miserably as a biosafety tool, it poses its own biosafety risks.
Ban Terminator Briefing: Terminator Technology and Genetic Contamination (pdf) (html)
EcoNexus Scientific Critique in Brief, Based on Submission to UN SBSTTA10 meeting. " V-GURTS (Terminator) as a biological containment tool?" February 2005 (2 pages pdf)
GeneWatch UK "GM Contamination: Can biological containment work for crops and society?"
Links:
Biosafety Information Centre, Third World Network www.biosafety-info.net
EcoNexus www.econexus.info
Institute of Science in Society www.i-sis.org.uk/GE-agriculture.php
GeneWatch UK www.genewatch.org
GM contamination registry www.gmcontaminationregister.org
Union of Concerned Scientists www.ucsusa.org