Secret Study Reveals Health Hazard of MON863

Item 1 Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food Rats fed GM corn due for sale in Britain developed abnormalities in blood and kidneys By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Independent on Sunday, 22 May 2005 http://news […]

NGOs Call on WHO to Address Concerns, Reconsider Recommendations, and Radically Restructure its Smallpox Advisory Committee

Item 1 News Release – 25 May 2005 Third World Network / The Sunshine Project http://www.smallpoxbiosafety.org No World Health Assembly Approval for Expanding Smallpox Virus Research ————————————- […]

No World Health Assembly Endorsement of Genetically Engineered Smallpox virus

No WHA Endorsement of Genetically Engineered Smallpox virus Countries Urge Review of Recommendations and Variola Advisory Committee By Edward Hammond (The Sunshine Project) and Lim Li Ching (Third World Network) (Geneva, 20 May) – On Friday afternoon […]

Chief African Negotiator Denied Entry into Canada for Biosafety Protocol Meetings

Item 1 17 May 2005 It will be recalled that the final show down in the negotiations on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety involved a Canadian delegate negotiating on behalf of the Miami Group (Canada, USA, Argentina, Uruguay an […]

‘Rust, Resistance, Run Down Soils, and Rising Costs – Problems Facing Soybean Producers in Argentina’

Signs of trouble are now emerging and the ‘honeymoon period’ for GM crops is coming to a close both in the US and in Argentina. […]

Argentina: The Track Record of GMOs

A summary of how the promises of GM crops to Argentinian farmers are not fulfilled. […]

World Health Assembly Debates Smallpox Virus Research

Questions About Smallpox Recommendations as WHA Discussions Begin By Lim Li Ching (Third World Network) and Edward Hammond (The Sunshine Project) (Geneva, 19 May) – On Thursday afternoon, the 58th World Health Assembly (WHA) took […]

New Findings Challenge Safety of Using Avipoxviruses as GE Vaccine Vectors

Item 1 Virus Research 109 (2005) 39–49 Avipoxvirus multiplication in a mammalian cell line Simon Chioma Welia,∗,1, Øivind Nilssenb, Terje Traavika,c a Department of Microbiology and Virology, University of Troms? […]

Zambia Builds GMO Detection Lab

Zambia builds high-tech lab to detect GM food imports Talent Ngandwe 13 May 2005 Source: SciDev.Net [LUSAKA] Zambia has begun building a modern molecular biology laboratory to detect genetically modified (GM) organisms entering th […]

Sustainable World Global Initiative Update

The Independent Science Panel Promotion of Science for the Public Good http://www.indsp.org General Enquiries info@indsp.org Website/Mailing List info@indsp.org 11 May 2005 Sustainable World Global Initiative Upda […]