Malaysia to Require Compulsory Labelling of GM Foods

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http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=49172:
‘Compulsory labelling on GM products soon: Azmi

17 April, 2007

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia is expected to have a legal framework on biosafety so […]

Can Biopharm Crops Be Confined?

How to Confine the Plants of the Future?
By DENISE CARUSO
New York Times,  April 8 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/business/yourmoney/08frame.html?ref=yourmoney

A NEW generation of genetically engineered crops t […]

Smallpox Virus Should Be Destroyed

(http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7597/774?ijkey=L4QxNSKRYnTpD)
British Medical Journal 2007;334:774 (14 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39155.695255.94

Should the US and Russia destroy their stocks of smallpox virus?
Edward Hamm […]

Identification of Escaped Transgenic Creeping Bentgrass in Oregon

The discovery of transgenic geneflow from GE creeping bentgrass to wild populations. […]

Open Letter to the Nanotechnology Community

A coalition of civil societies and labour organisations rejects the voluntary ‘risk assessment’ framework on nanotechnology proposed by Dupont and Environment Defense. […]

Opposition to Voluntary Framework on Nanotechnology

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY AT LARGE

Civil Society-Labor Coalition Rejects Fundamentally Flawed DuPont-ED Proposed Framework

Urges All Parties To Reject The Public Relations Campaign

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GE Mosquitoes and Malaria

Genetically modified mosquitoes and malaria
Nets still protect best
By Christophe Boete
Translated by Donald Hounam
Le Monde diplomatique, August 2006
http://mondediplo.com/2006/08/12malaria
 
Christophe Boete […]

GM Trait Identified in Rice Contamination Case

r USDA identifies rice in latest GM contamination

By Lorraine Heller
foodnavigator-USA.com
(http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?id=75220)

3/23/2007 – The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has identified t […]

South Africa Rejects GM Maize for Biofuels

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PRESS RELEASE
 
AFRICAN CENTRE FOR BIOSAFETY & CENTRE FOR FOOD SAFETY
 
SA REJECTS WORLD FIRST GM MAIZE FOR BIOFUELS
 
Johannesburg 26 March 2006
 
The African Centre […]

How Food Became A Casualty of Biotechnology’s Promise

This policy brief exposes how food is merely the conduit through which the pharmaceutical conglomerates hope to develop and monopolize the basic technologies that promise high profits. […]