At that stage Dr Pusztai's research simply looked like a proof of principle checking that the techniques for transplanting and testing lectin genes worked, prior to exploring other, less harmful lectins as built-in insecticides for crops.
GNA. Moreover, the data from these experiments had not been fully analysed, and so they could not have yielded the results Dr Pusztai claimed, even if he had merely got the name of the lectin wrong.