Amendment to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

The amendment to the Aarhus Convention concerning public participation in decision-making on genetically modified organisms was adopted at the second meeting of the Parties to the Convention in September 2005. […]

Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research

r Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research: Still No Answers to Ageing Questions Terje Traavik and Jack Heinemann Introduction Some of the most crucial scientific questions concerning the health effects of genetic en […]

Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research

This paper identifies some of the putative health hazards related to genetically engineered plants used as food or feed. It also identifies numerous areas of omitted research, which need urgent investigation. […]

Mexico Refuses to Allow Field Trials of GM Maize

MEXICO SHUTS THE DOOR ON GM MAIZE
Inter Press Service News Agency, 28.10.2006
(http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35280)

MEXICO CITY, Oct 28 (Tierramérica) – Ending the reason for protests by environmental activists, and muc […]

Escaped GM Grass Ignites Concern

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Escaped golf-course grass frees gene genie in the US

From issue 2564 of New Scientist magazine, 09 August 2006, page 9
By Andy Coghlan
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125643.100-escaped-golfcourse-grass- […]

US Federal Judge Finds Planting of Drug-Producing GE Crops in Hawaii

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Federal judge: Officials cut corners with biotech crop permits
By TARA GODVIN Associated Press, August 15 2006
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/47911.html

HONOLULU (AP) – A federal judge has ruled that U […]

Enhanced Nutrition GM Crops A Health Threat?

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ISIS Press Release 24/09/06

GM Crops for Health?

(http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Crops_for_Health.php)

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Call for GM-free Chiloe to Protect Potato Centre of Origin

r Chile: Keep Chiloe free of transgenics, say activists

Santiago, 18 Oct (IPS-Tierramerica/Daniela Estrada*) – Environmentalists are demanding that Chilean authorities declare the southern archipelago of Chiloe – 1,190 km south of Santia […]

Another GM Rice Contamination Case in Europe

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Another GE rice from Bayer contaminates EU food supplies
Greenpeace calls for EU strategy to prevent food and feed contamination with GMOs

BRUSSELS: News that French authorities have detected another vari […]

The Truth Behind GM Cotton in the Makhathini Flats

The adoption of GM cotton in South Africa’s Makhathini Flats was heralded as a success story but this report believes that this perception is misguided. […]