2013-06-05 | permalink

Namibia gets GMO testing lab

This week Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, John Mutorwa, inaugurated the first-ever Genetically Modified Organism testing facility in Namibia in the capital. [...] “If we are not careful, our genetic resources may disappear through the uncontrolled use of GMO seeds or plants and the list goes on,” Mutorwa said on Tuesday. “I am not against science, but what we are saying as food producers is tha: consumers have the right to know what they are consuming. Therefore proper, ethical, honest, and professional labelling of these products would give consumers choices whether to take GMO foodstuffs or not,” said the minister.

• Informate, Namibia: Namibia gets GMO testing lab
• The Economist, Namibia: New laboratory tests for GMO