Reports Addressing Issues Related to GMOs

Item 1 Earth Matters: An eye on GM infiltration By Sarah Sabaratnam, The New Straits Times, March 2, 2004 (http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/Features/20040302084129/Article/indexb_html) With something as […]

UNEP Latin America Warns Against GMOs

Latin America: UNEP regional office urges caution on transgenics Mexico City, 3 Mar (IPS/Diego Cevallos) — The United Nations Environment Programme warned Wednesday in Mexico that transgenic crops could pose a threat to biodiversity and huma […]

Are Biotech Companies Retreating?

Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve? By ANDREW POLLACK, New York Times February 29, 2004 (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/business/yourmoney/29biotech.html?ex=1079069500&ei=1&en=daa337be15239edf) AS a founder of four biotec […]

Biosafety Protocol Meet Ends on High Note

Item 1 On the road to safer crops By Tan Cheng Li The Star, Malaysia, March 2, 2004 (http://202.186.86.35/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2004/3/2/features/7429621&newspage=Search) New rules adopted at the recently concluded g […]

TWN Report on MOP1

The Socio-economic Aspects of GMOs and the Need for Applying Precautionary Principles

This paper examines the the socio-economic aspects of GMOs and calls for the application of the precautionary principle to protect communities from the adverse effects of GMOs. […]

Fatal Flaws in Food Safety Assessment: Critique of The Joint FAO/WHO Biotechnology and Food Safety Report

The Joint FAO/WHO Biotechnology and Food Safety Report shows up the glaring inadequacies in safety regulation of GE foods, designed to expedite product approval with little or no regard for biosafety. […]

Socio-Economic Considerations in Biosafety

An analysis of the impact of GMOs on traditional farming systems, the rights of indigenous peoples and the international laws that support socio-economic considerations in biosafety. […]

MRC Acknowledges GM Food Risks : Human Studies Proposed

A report by the UK Medical Research Council, published in June 2000, goes beyond what many other groups have done in acknowledging that GM foods do pose special risks. […]

Disagreement on GM Maize Import into EU

Item 1 EU fails to agree on Monsanto request to import GM maize Agence France Press, 18 February, 2004 Brussels European Union scientists on Wednesday failed to agree on whether to allow imports of a genetically modified (GM) str […]