The US Government is proclaiming victory in the WTO case launched against the European Union on GMOs. But according to FOE, the WTO interim ruling does not question the right of countries to adopt strict biosafety. […]
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r Monsanto to cut Bt Cotton price The coexistence of GM crops and non-GM crops is a myth because the movement of transgenes beyond their intended destinations is a certainty, and this leads to genetic contamination of organic farms and other systems. […] The potential for GM crops to threaten biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture is substantial, contends the author. […] For many years, the view has been that plant and animal genes are regulated by small gene switches called promoters but it is now clear that small control sense RNA or RNAi is a universal mechanism for controlling gene action, including in bacteria. […] r Item 1 Poland approves total ban on GM crop growing Poland’s parliament has passed a total ban on cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops by […] The first genetically engineered plum trees were tested in Romania in 1996, with the support of the European Commission. Ten years later, there’s talk of destroying some. This article looks back on an experiment far from citizen’s eyes. […] r News from Smallpoxbiosafety.org In this Edition HOLISTIC FOUNDATIONS FOR ASSESSMENT AND REGULATION OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS Date: 31 July – 11 August 2006 Venue: Science Park/University of Tromsø, Norway TOPICS INCLUDE: * Holistic overv […] r Alarm bells over GM food approval: part 1 Recen […] |
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