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CLI supports Cartagena Biosafety Protocol discussions

(AgProfessional) CropLife International applauded the productive negotiations that took place at last week’s Conference of the Parties serving as the sixth Meeting of the Parties (COP/MOP-6) to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (BSP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In particular, the plant biotechnology industry commends the Parties’ hard work in coming to consensus  Read More »

Cattle anthrax outbreak probably over

(Denver Post) Colorado agriculture officials say four ranch quarantines that were prompted by an outbreak of anthrax in cattle in northeast Colorado have been lifted. State Department of Agriculture officials initially estimated that the outbreak killed 60 cattle in Logan County this past summer, but they have since revised that to about 55 cattle on  Read More »

Hoya Citings: Student contributes to foot-and-mouth disease research in Shanghai laboratory

(Vox Populi) Until this summer, Georgetown student David Schaffer (COL ’14) never thought he’d need to know how to say “flask” in Chinese. And no, this is was not his way to get to know Shanghai’s nightlife. Schaffer spent the summer in China at Shanghai’s State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering in Fudan University, scrambling  Read More »

Why Animal Welfare Could be the Key to Wiping Out the World’s Deadliest Disease

(The Huffington Post) According to the World Health Organisation, more than 55,000 people die a terrible death from rabies every year. 40% of them are children. The suffering endured by people who get rabies is horrible – an awful way to die, and for others to see. Our natural and understandable fear of rabies, though,  Read More »

TAINTED-the threat of agroterrorism

(NewsMagazineNetwork) What would happen if a terrorist infected America’s food supply? Could a simple cheeseburger become a killer? The terrorist attacks of 9/11 provided clear evidence that America was vulnerable. The result was a close examination of how to safeguard potential targets, including critical infrastructure elements such as transportation, telecommunications and other utilities. But what  Read More »

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