2006-06-21 | permalink
At a meeting of national experts and representatives of the European Food Safety Authority on GMO risk assessment harsh words were kept behind closed doors. According to participants numerous experts made far reaching suggestions to overhaul the present system of risk assessment. On the lighter side an EFSA official told Reuters "that it was natural that the agency was using short-term data from the industry in its assessments because GMOs were fairly young".</p><p><a href="http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36866/story.htm">Reuters: Food Safety Body Says Works Closely With EU on GMOs</a>
2006-06-21 | permalink
Supervisors of the county of Santa Cruz unanimously agreed on a 'precautionary' moratorium on the cultivation of GMOs in the region around the Capital of California.</p><p><a href="http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/June/21/local/stories/10local.htm">Santa Cruz Sentinel: County bans biotech crops</a>
2006-06-16 | permalink
A comprehensive overview on the European Unions state of politics on genetically modified organisms, complemented with links to many relevant EU web-sites and references has been published by the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service.</p><p><a href="http://www.fas.usda.gov/scripts/gd.asp?ID=146187745">USDA: EU-25Biotechnology Annual Agricultural Biotechnology Report 2006</a>
2006-06-14 | permalink
The approval of 17 field trials by the French government, including two with pharmaceutical GMOs, have been criticised by various organisations. There is still no proper GM law governing such trials in France.</p><p><a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6632">GMWatch.org</a>
2006-06-11 | permalink
The establishment of a new EU "technology platform" on biofuels has been enthusiastically welcomed by Europes GMO industry association "Europa-Bio" as "yet another key step in the integration of biotechnology into the infrastructure of the European economy. Biotechnology had the potential to enable the production of fuels and chemicals.</p><p><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=44845"></a></p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/gp/gp_events/article_1567_en.htm">EU: Launching Conference of the European Technology Platform for Biofuels</a></p><p><a href="http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2355/Green_Fuel_s_Dirty_Secret">Background from the USA: Green Fuel's Dirty Secret</a>
