Anti-Precautionary Risk Assessment

Vyvyan Howard examined how the regulatory process addresses pervasive technologies and the use of risk assessment therein. […]

Eating Growth Factors? No Thanks

Extending from Arpad Pusztai’s talk, Stanley Ewen discusses the effect of GM potatoes on rat guts. While he believes that GM potatoes are fully carcinogenic, he cautioned that what we eat might have indirect effects. […]

Organic farming produces same yields but uses less energy and no pesticides

Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds. […]

UN Body Calls for Caution Over GM Trees

UN body urges caution over GM trees SciDev.Net, UK, by James Njoroge (http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/un-body-urges-caution-over-gm-trees.cfm) 22 Jul 2005 Increasing use of biotechnology in the forestry sector has led the UN […]

A Time & A Place for Gene Transfer

Genetic engineering is breaking all the rules of evolution. GMOs are unnatural as they have never existed in the billions of years of evolution. This presentation was made at the launch of the ISP in 2003. […]

UK Government Study Finds GM ‘Superweeds’

r Item 1 THE POTENTIAL FOR DISPERSAL OF HERBICIDE TOLERANCE GENES FROM GENETICALLY-MODIFIED, HERBICIDE-TOLERANT OILSEED RAPE CROPS TO WILD RELATIVES Contract reference EPG 1/5/151 Roger Daniels, Caroline Boffey, Rebecca Mogg, Jo […]

GM in Corn Demonstrating Vulnerability of Food Chain

The discovery of GM corn in New Zealand shows how vulnerable the food chain is to contamination, according to Jack Heinemann of the New Zealand Institute of Gene Ecology. […]

No WHA approval for expanding smallpox virus research

A proposal by a WHO advisory committee to preserve stocks of the smallpox virus in their laboratories for further research, including genetic engineering, was not approved by the World Health Assembly. […]

European Communities – Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products

Three countries led by the US have submitted a complaint to the WTO over the EU’s authorisation system for GMOs. This paper discusses the issues with respect to EU’s measures affecting the approval and marketing of GMOs and products derived from GMOs. […]

National Implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Some Key Issues

Lim Li Lin discusses some of the issues related to the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety as they relate to its implementation at the national level. […]