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Africa pushes for genetically modified food ban – Fresh Fruit Portal

Africa pushes for genetically modified food banFresh Fruit PortalThe African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has petitioned the African Union to consider a ban on the cultivation, import and export of genetically modified (GM) crops in Africa at its January 2013 summit. The request comes at the same time the Kenyan …

November 26, 2012
| Filed under Biosafety
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Should we label genetically modified food?

(The Guardian) On the sidelines of the US presidential election, battle lines were drawn on a Californian ballot that has potential implications for broader debates about the challenges of global food security. Proposition 37, which was narrowly defeated (52.8% of voters opposed the measure), would have required mandatory labelling for all genetically engineered food sold Read More »

November 23, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Calling for a GMO-Free Continent

(AllAfrica) South African smallholder farmer Motlasi Musi is not happy with the African Centre for Biosafety’s call for his country and Africa to ban the cultivation, import and export of all genetically modified maize. “I eat genetically modified maize, which I have been growing on my farm for more than seven years, and I am Read More »

November 23, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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Plum Island developing vaccines to keep world safe from diseases

(West Hartford News) It may be intriguing when talking about the nation’s only research lab for highly-infectious foreign animal diseases to bounce around conspiracy theories about Lyme disease, West Nile virus and the infamous “Montauk Monster,” all of which some people say originated there. But scientists involved in research at the Plum Island Animal Disease Read More »

November 19, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, and Research
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US high security bio lab faces uncertain future

(BBC News) The National Bio and Agro defence facility (NBAF) would be the first US lab able to research diseases like foot and mouth in large animals. But reviews have raised worries about virus escapes in the middle of cattle country. And rising costs have cast doubts over the project’s future. For over 50 years Read More »