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Whistleblower Award

Dr Árpád Pusztai, the scientist who was dismissed after making public the harmful effects of genetically modified potato, has been given the 'Whistleblower Award' by the Federation of German Scientists and the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear War.

He was given the award on 15th October 2005 in Berlin, in the evening of the Einstein Congress. The Whistleblower Award was first given to the Russian Navy captain Alexander Nikitin in 1999. Dr Pusztai is on the International Council of Freedom to Care.

His recent work on the implications of nanoparticles in food appears in Geoff Hunt's new book on 'Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics & Law' (Earthscan, London, 2006).