Vyvyan Howard examined how the regulatory process addresses pervasive technologies and the use of risk assessment therein. […]
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Extending from Arpad Pusztai’s talk, Stanley Ewen discusses the effect of GM potatoes on rat guts. While he believes that GM potatoes are fully carcinogenic, he cautioned that what we eat might have indirect effects. […] Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds. […] Genetic engineering is breaking all the rules of evolution. GMOs are unnatural as they have never existed in the billions of years of evolution. This presentation was made at the launch of the ISP in 2003. […] The discovery of GM corn in New Zealand shows how vulnerable the food chain is to contamination, according to Jack Heinemann of the New Zealand Institute of Gene Ecology. […] A proposal by a WHO advisory committee to preserve stocks of the smallpox virus in their laboratories for further research, including genetic engineering, was not approved by the World Health Assembly. […] Three countries led by the US have submitted a complaint to the WTO over the EU’s authorisation system for GMOs. This paper discusses the issues with respect to EU’s measures affecting the approval and marketing of GMOs and products derived from GMOs. […] Lim Li Lin discusses some of the issues related to the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety as they relate to its implementation at the national level. […] Argentina has decided to suspend talks with Monsanto over the design of a payment system that would allow the company to collect royalties on the pervasive use of its popular soybean seeds. […] As concerns grow over the environmental and human and animal health effects of genetic engineering, governments in some countries are taking action to protect their people and territory. […] |
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