Health

Genetic engineering (GE) and omitted health research: still no answers to ageing questions

Many crucial scientific questions concerning the health effects of genetic engineering and genetically engineered organisms remain. In this report, the authors identify some of the putative health hazards related to genetically engineered plants used as food or feed. They also identify numerous areas of omitted research, which need urgent investigation.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Terje Traavik, Jack Heinemann
Third World Network
Tags:
GM Crops, Health Effects, Food Safety, Genetic Engineering
Climate Change

Organic food export figure understated, says Apeda

Publication Date: 
09/12/2006
Tags:
GM Crops
Forests

GEAC's no to Bt brinjal; yes for Bt cabbage

Publication Date: 
04/12/2006
Tags:
GM Crops
Climate Change

EU Environment Chief Faces GMO Hot Potato

Publication Date: 
04/12/2006
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
GM Crops
Solid Waste

Italian Campaign Plans Mass Vote Against GM Food

Publication Date: 
04/12/2006
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
GM Crops
Health

U.N. Body Wants Data Sharing on GMO Crops

Publication Date: 
02/12/2006
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
GM Crops
Health

Government hesitant on labelling gm food

Publication Date: 
01/12/2006
Tags:
GM Crops
Agriculture

 Activists, exporters protest Bt rice trials in India

ON the surface, it was a typical fortnight in India's debate on genetically modified (gm) crops. Right after the International Rice Congress in Delhi promoted the benefits of transgenic rice, a plot

Publication Date: 
29/11/2006
Sourav Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Rice, GM Crops, India
Agriculture

 Nailing GM

Village approaches police to stop cultivation of GM rice

Publication Date: 
29/11/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rice, GM Crops, Environment Act 1986, Uttar Pradesh, Gorakhpur (D)
Agriculture

  It s sad to see this technology die at the age of seven

Shenghui Wang, an economist with the World Bank and one of the authors of the study on Bt cotton in China, on the future of the technology in India and China

Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Plant Diseases, Pest Control, Biological PC, GM Crops, Biotechnology, China

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