Bilateral FTAs and GMOs

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Pesticides Action Network Asia Pacific and People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty

Bilateral Free Trade and Investment Agreements and the US Corporate Biotech Agenda
by Aziz Choudry
February 2006

Bilateral […]

The Failure of GE Papaya in Hawaii

Introduced in Hawaii in 1998, GE papaya is facing many setbacks and the prospects for the industry is dim, thus contradicting claims of its success by the GE industry and its allies. […]

Unusual Animal Deaths Linked to Bt Cotton?

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Unusual livestock deaths blamed on Bt Cotton
NTDV, Uma Sudhir

Thursday, June 1, 2006 (Hyderabad):
(June 19th, 2006 | Category: Agriculture / Organisms

Shortcomings in Assessment of LY038

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Centre for Integrated Research
in Biosafety
Tel: +64 3 364 2500, Fax: + 64 3 364 2590
Email: jack.heinemann@canterbury.ac.nz

4 June 2006

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Bilateral Free Trade and Investment Agreements and the US Corporate Biotech Agenda

Bilateral free trade agreements are seen by the agricultural biotechnology industry as an important conduit for spreading GMOs around the world. […]

Contaminating the Wild?

Current field trials of experimental, untested GE crops pose unassessed risks to wildlife, yet US government regulators have inadequate safeguards to protect the environment from genetic contamination […]

South Africa, Bioethanol and GMOs

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BRIEFING DOCUMENT

SOUTH AFRICA, BIOETHANOL AND GMOS: A HEADY MIXTURE

By Mariam Mayet
African Centre for Biosafety
www.biosafetyafrica.net

May […]

US FDA Faces Lawsuit over Lax GM Regulations

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Lawsuit Challenges Unscientific FDA Policy on Gene-Altered Foods

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 7, 2006

Politics, Not Science, Informed Policy that Leaves Engineered Foods
Untested and […]

Submission on the DAR for APPLICATION A549 FOOD DERIVED FROM HIGH-LYSINE CORN LY038: to permit the use in food of high-lysine corn

The Centre for Research in Biosafety (INBI) in New Zealand is urging the food standards agency not to approve Monsanto’s GE high-lysine LY038 corn until further safety studies have been conducted. […]

WHA delays decision on smallpox virus stocks

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Health: WHA delays decision on smallpox virus stocks
South-North Development Monitor SUNS 6036 tuesday 30 may 2006

Geneva, 28 May (Edward Hammond*) — Governments meeting at the World Health
Assembly (WHA), which ended […]