UK Insurers Reluctant to Cover GM Farmers

FARM press release 7/10/03 – for immediate release No-one will insure GM crops “The worry is that GM could be like Thalidomide – only after some time would the full extent of the problems be seen” – Insurance company spokesperso […]

Bayer to Stop GM Field Trials in UK

Top GM food company abandons British crop trials By Robin McKie, science editor Sunday September 28, 2003 The Observer (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1051262,00.html) A key GM crop developer, Bayer, has decide […]

NZ Insurer Refuses to Cover GM

Big insurer refuses GE farm cover The New Zealand Herald, by Ruth Berry http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3525771&thesection=news&thesubsection=general Sep 27, 2003 New Zealand’s second-biggest insurer, Vero, wil […]

Companies in China Go GE-free

Companies in China clear genetically engineered food off their shelves Non-GE policy becoming strong trend in the word’s largest food market Hong-Kong/Beijing, July18, 2003 – Thirty-two food producers operating in China today anno […]

EU Firms Cut Back Biotech Research

Nature Biotechnology May 2003 Volume 21 Number 5 pp 468 – 469 Europe sees sharp decline in GMO research By Peter Mitchell London, UK Field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops in the European Union (EU) have plumme […]

Rough Road Ahead for Biotech Centers

Signs of Life: The Growth of Biotechnology Centers in the US By Joseph Cortright and Heike Mayer Executive Summary The biotechnology industry is concentrated within nine of the nation’s 51 largest metropolitan areas. These nine […]