Another View on Bt Proteins – How Specific are They and What Else Might They Do?

A useful source on the existing and missing research on the safety of Bt crops, especially on how Bt toxins might affect non-target organisms. […]

Landmark law bans GMOs in Negros, the Philippines

The Negros Occidental Sangguniang Panlalawigan in the Philippins passed a landmark legislation that bans the entry of GM plants and animals in the province and imposes penalties for its violation. […]

A Grain of Caution: A Critical Assessment of Pharmaceutical Rice

This report by the Center for Food Safety assesses the potential adverse consequences and regulatory status of Ventria Bioscience’s pharmaceutical GE rice containing human genes. […]

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 […]