Illegal GM products appear in Japan, Ireland

Item 1 Reuters, 13 Jun 2005 Japan asks importers to get Bt10-free certificate TOKYO – Japan’s Agriculture Ministry has asked importers of U.S. corn to obtain certificates stating cargoes do not contain Bt-10 biotech corn […]

Impact of Bt cotton in South Africa far from rosy

GRAIN NEWS RELEASE South Africa: 26 May 2005 BT COTTON IN MAKHATHINI, SOUTH AFRICA: THE SUCCESS STORY THAT NEVER WAS Despite claims that Bt cotton will catapult African farmers out of poverty, recent reports revealed th […]

Spinning Recovery from Organic Cotton

At least a thousand farmers in Punjab and Gujarat in India have opted to grow only organic cotton, giving pesticides, fertilisers and GM seeds the big heave-ho from their lands. […]

Questions asked in New Zealand Parliament on government’s stance at MOP 2

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Genetically Modified Organisms-Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (31 May 2005)
 

2. JEANETTE FITZSIMONS (Co-Leade […]

New Website on GM Contamination Incidents

 
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Media release from Greenpeace
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First on-line worldwide register of GM
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Brazil, New Zealand block decision on documentation of GMOs

A report on the outcome of the Second Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Montreal, 30 May – 3 June, 2005. […]

Biotechnology Industry Continues to Lose Money

Biotechnology Loses Billions A Year

By PAUL ELIAS The Associated Press
Published: Jun 1, 20 […]

Bt10 Is Not the Same as Bt11

Critique of Syngenta’s documents – Dr Jack Heinemann, New Zealand
Institute of Gene Ecology
Tel: +64 3 364 2500, Fax: + 64 3 364 2590
Email: jack.heinemann@canterbury.ac.nz
 
Claire Bleakley
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MOP2 Ends – No Decision on Documentation of LMO-FFPs

Brazil, New Zealand block decision on documentation of GMOs
 
Montreal, 4 June (Lim Li Ching and Lim Li Lin) — Negotiations under the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety collapsed on the issue of documentation
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Register of GM Contamination

First on-line worldwide register of GM contamination incidents. […]