South Africa Facing a Tsunami of Risky GMOs

SOUTH AFRICA FACING A TSUNAMI OF RISKY GMOs

The African Centre for Biosafety has warned that a wave of new GMOs are expected to flood the South African market during 2009, as the  backlog of commodity import permits that have been stalled by a moratorium since 2005 are about to be processed, heralding the opening of the floodgates. Vast amounts of money from biotech backers, such as the Bill Gates Foundation, are also bringing new GM crops onto the South African scene, and South Africa may be the only country in the world to have GM potatoes on the market.

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