2005-06-05 | permalink
A conference on June 28 and 29 in Brussels will bring together soy crushers and processors from Brazil and their Europeancustomers for a constructive exchange of information and ideas. The Summit aims at enabling members ofthe European food and feed industries to assess the future of non-GM soy from Brazil and at communicating to representatives of the more than 160 GM-free Regions in Europe, to consumer groups andto NGOs the extent of ongoing industry efforts to meet consumer demands and allowing NGOs to understandand appreciate the technical, market, and regulatory challenges.</p><p><a href="http://www.avantel.de/soysummit2005/">Non-GMO Soy Summit 2005 website</a>
2005-06-03 | permalink
Canadians are joining regions, communities and countries around the world in declaring their communities GE-Free Zones.Launched June 2nd, the GE-Free Canada campaign is a nation-wide, grass-roots effort by farmers, environmentalists, and ordinary Canadians concerned with issues of food safety and food sovereignty.</p><p><a href="http://www.canadians.org/display_document.htm?COC_token=23@@b09375e5be3f0c1f651c3d7166fe5023&id=1125&isdoc=1&catid=67">The Council of Canadians</a>
2005-05-30 | permalink
Two thirds of Russians are against genetically modified foods and the majority of experts support a ban on GM crops as the government prepares new production laws.</p><p><a href="http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=60290russians-reject-gm">Foodproduction Daily</a>
2005-05-26 | permalink
Greenpeace and Japanese consumer, environmental and farmer organizations today appealed to the Canadian government to stop contamination of food products and the environment by exporting only non-GE canola in future.</p><p><a href="http://www.prdirect.ca/en/view_release.aspx?TrafficID=2794">PR direct</a>
2005-05-26 | permalink
A United States consignment of genetically modified corn gluten feed tainted with an illegal strain of Bt10 has been impounded upon arrival at an Irish port, the European Commission said on Wednesday.</p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=789912">Reuters: Tainted biotech maize impounded at Irish port</a></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052500515.html">Washington Post: EU: Ireland Intercepts U.S. Biotech Corn</a></p><p><a href="http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/608&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en">EU press release</a>
