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01.01.1970

China?s Heilongjiang Province starts non-GE soy brand

China?s biggest soybean producing province is trying to build a non-genetically-modified (non-GM) brand to revive its bean industry, according to a press release on the province?s Department of Agriculture website Wednesday. Northeast China?s Heilongjiang Province, which produces about half of China?s soybean, aims to build the brand through mergers among the more than 160 soybean processing plants, said the press release.

01.01.1970

Superweed problem yields call for new tax and rules in the USA

Critics of agricultural biotechnology used the increasing problem with herbicide-resistant weeds to call for tighter regulation of biotech crops. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who chaired a House hearing Wednesday on the spread of Roundup-resistant weeds, said the Agriculture Department has been too quick to approve new varieties of herbicide-tolerant crops and other biotech products.

01.01.1970

BASF: Plant biotech ops a potential earnings driver

"We are confident that we will see the first significant earnings from this business in the middle of the current decade," Marcinowski said, speaking in the interview Friday. [...] BASF targets net profit in the high triple-digit million dollar range in 2020 from its partnership with Monsanto Co.. BASF teamed up with Monsanto in 2007 to develop commercial crops with higher yields and stress resistance. [...] The company expects to introduce the world's first genetically modified and drought-tolerant maize to the U.S. market in 2012, pending regulatory approval.

01.01.1970

The Power of soy: President Cristina Kirchner strengthens commercial relations between Argentina and China

Argentine president Cristina Fernández recently travelled to China to attempt to solve the soy oil controversy between the two countries. For weeks, China has been blocking the commodity from entering the country in retaliation against anti-dumping measures that Argentina has applied against Chinese imports.

01.01.1970

Chinese National Development and Reform Commission permits import of 11 GM corn strains for feed use

The Chinese National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will permit the import of only 11 strains of genetically modified corn, out of more than 20 kinds globally, the economic planning agency said. NDRC carried the transcript of a question-answer session on the issue on its website, along with an assessment of the impact of all types of corn imports on the domestic market. Acknowledging intense public debate on genetically modified corn imports, the commission said such grains would only be allowed for use in livestock feed, and will be closely inspected, quarantined and tested.

01.01.1970

Exports face price wars as EU approves more GMOs for food and feed

Kenya and other agricultural produce exporters eyeing the European market could soon face new price wars as the key outlet opens up its doors to more genetically modified foods. [...] Kenya makes shipments of convectional produced yellow corn and sweet corn to the EU market alongside other produce such as vegetables and cut flower. Analysts said the increased presence of more GMO products in the EU market is likely to trigger fresh challenges in terms of pricing in the long term.

01.01.1970

GM bananas could cut blindness, anaemia in Uganda

Bio-fortified bananas that could reduce blindness, diarrhoea and anaemia are a step closer, according to the preliminary results of a joint research project between Ugandan and Australian scientists. [...] But it may be another five years of research before the improved banana cultivars - Nakinyik matooke (for cooking) and Sukaali ndizi (sweet banana) - are ready for commercial planting, said the team.

01.01.1970

Toxin-free castor would be major help to U.S. industry to replace imports

Castor oil is the highly desirable, plentiful product of castor beans. The oil is used to produce everything from cosmetics and paints to jet aircraft lubricants and certain plastics. [...] There is no law or restriction against the domestic production of castor, but Barnes said castor has not been grown commercially in the United States since the 1970s. [...] ?We import every bit of castor oil and caster seed, mainly from India and China,? Barnes said.

01.01.1970

Hawaii State Representatives honored as BIO Legislators of the Year

The Biotechnology Industry Organization announced its selection today of Hawaii State Representatives Calvin Say, who serves as the Speaker of the House, and Clift Tsuji as BIO Co-Legislators of the Year in recognition of their leadership and support of the agricultural bioscience industry. [...] Hawaii?s $200 million seed crop industry leads the state?s agricultural biotech sector and employs nearly 2,000 residents on the islands of Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, and Maui.

01.01.1970

Update on recent legislative activities on GE crops and food in the USA

The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act is intended: To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that food that contains a genetically engineered material, or that is produced with a genetically engineered material, be labeled accordingly.

01.01.1970

Another victory for the sustainable food ?moo-vement

As part of their collective commitment to health and wellness, Bon Appétit Management Company and Compass Group USA will contract to buy only yogurt from cows not treated with rBGH (also known as rBST) effective today. [...] According to Rick North, Oregon PSR?s Project Director, ?Artificial growth hormone is known to cause harm to cows and may very well cause harm to humans. [...] This change sends a clear signal to milk product manufacturers

01.01.1970

Reactions on cloned cows in the UK food supply

It is this type of GM clone that tends to worry anti-GM lobbyists. But the fact is that millions of tons of GM food (mostly crops) have been consumed by people around the world for more than a decade. As far as is known, no one has ever died or even got sick from eating GM food. Why are people so scared of GM ingredients, while cheerfully accepting far greater hazards?

01.01.1970

Hundred clone cows on UK farms: Shocking evidence of how 'super calves' have secretly spread into our food system

The Daily Mail has now learnt at least 105 Holstein cattle descended from a clone have been born on British farms in the past four years. The Food Standards Agency watchdog doesn't even know where the cows at the centre of the investigation are, it has emerged, because the body responsible for registering all pedigree cows and bulls on farms, Holstein UK, would not disclose the information.

01.01.1970

EFSA GM panel adopts allergenicity opinion

EFSA?s panel on genetically modified organisms has adopted a scientific opinion on risk assessment of allergenicity of GM plants, following a 10 week consultation period. The allergenicity of GMOs has to be assessed before any new plants or microorganisms can be placed on the market, as new or existing proteins could cause allergies in humans or animals. The panel received some 181 comments from 17 interested parties ? individuals as well as organisations.

01.01.1970

Roundup's potency slips and foils U.S. farmers

Farmers in the South started noticing the problem before anyone else. When they sprayed their fields with Roundup weed killer, weeds kept growing anyway. In some areas, fields became so choked with weeds that farmers abandoned them. [Roundup] has helped catapult Creve Coeur-based Monsanto, the developer of the Roundup Ready system, into the most dominant player in the seed industry. But now, this silver bullet of American agriculture is beginning to miss its mark.

01.01.1970

Monsanto plans to introduce Bollgard II in India in 2011

Crop biotech major Monsanto and its Indian partner Mahyco [...] are conducting trials of a new variety of GM cotton in which Bollgard II has been integrated with Monsanto?s round up ready flex technology to give farmers better weed control in Bt cotton fields. [...] ?We hope to generate all data required for the regulatory approval by early 2011,? Gyanendra Shukla, director of Monsanto told Deccan Herald here. The new GM cotton will allow farmers to spray a Monsanto?s proprietary weed-killer, Round up, most parts of the season.

01.01.1970

Indian farmers? body demands scrapping of Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill

A national-level prabandha samittee meet of Bharatiya Kisan Sangha was held at Parbhani, Maharastra on July 17 and 18 last where farmers from all corners of the country including Assam took part. [...] an important proposal was adopted against ?legalisation of food colonialism and slavery of seed sovereignty through BRAI?. The meet observed that Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill (BRAI), 2009 is a three- member regulatory body that will act as single-window clearing house for all genetically modified crops and their commercial application.

01.01.1970

Arkansas (USA) jury awards $940,000 in rice GE contamination law suit

The German conglomerate Bayer CropScience has been ordered to pay six Arkansas rice farmers $940,000 for allowing genetically altered rice into the commercial market. [...] Three federal juries and three juries in Arkansas have now awarded more than $53 million to farmers for damages in the case.

01.01.1970

Laboratory errors leads to GM plant escape in New Zealand

A probe into the escape of genetically engineered plants from a government laboratory found scientists had left routes open.
Scientists also washed out their high-security specialist containment laboratory with water that was flushed straight into the storm water system. Details of a criminal investigation into a GE breach at a Plant and Food Research glasshouse laboratory are exposed in papers released under the Official Information Act.

01.01.1970

Consumer gene testing in the hotseat

Companies that sell direct-to-consumer gene-testing kits have had a tumultuous time in the past ten days. On 19 and 20 July, at a hearing held by the US Food and Drug Administration, regulators heard comments from stakeholders about how the government might best oversee the validity and accuracy of such tests and other in vitro diagnostics. [...] Many in the field of genomics and personalized medicine ? in both academia and industry ? concede that regulation is necessary.

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