An alarming report from Greenpeace researcher Iza Kruszewska expressed concern that less than scrupulous western organisations, including De Monfort University in Leicester, may be exploiting the lack of regulation in Eastern European countries to carry out genetic experiments their own countries would not allow. In Poland, carp with human genes had been swimming in open ponds since 1994.

There were also reports of transgenic rabbits. A wide range of genetically-modified crops were being grown, including potatoes, tobacco, maize, rape and alfalfa in Hungary and alfalfa in Bulgaria, where the institute of Genetic Engineering is allegedly half-funded by De Montfort