Agriculture

Foods derived from modern biotechnology

The Codex Alimentarius Commission has recently published

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
FAO
Tags:
GM Crops, Health Effects, Food Safety, CODEX, GMOs, Biotechnology
Agriculture

Bt brinjal: the truth behind it

As eight states have said no to Union government's plan to approve Bt Brinjal, this timely booklet by Greenpeace details its impacts on environment & health and opposes the commercial release of this GM Crop.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Greenpeace India
Tags:
Agriculture, Vegetables, GM Crops, Pesticides And Toxins, Food Safety, GMOs, Genetic Engineering, India, Bt Brinjal
Agriculture

GM food safety assessment: tools for trainers

FAO

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
FAO
Tags:
Nutrition, Food Standards, Processed Foods, GM Crops, Pesticides And Toxins, Toxicity Studies, Food Safety, CODEX, GMOs, Biotechnology, India, Global
Agriculture

Genetically modified crops: issues and challenges in the context of India

The issues relating to Genetically Modified Crops have generated

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Rajya Sabha Secretariat
Tags:
Agriculture, GM Crops, Biosafety, GMOs, Genetic Engineering, India, Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi, Bt Brinjal, Bt Cotton
Agriculture

High Biotech Council - Defining biotech-free production

The French High Biotech Council, in charge of advising the French Government on a wide range of biotech issues and composed of a scientific committee and a socio-economic committee, released its first report defining biotech-free production.

Publication Date: 
16/11/2009
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Policy, Food Standards, GM Crops, Food Safety, GMOs, Biotechnology, Legislation, France
Agriculture

Zero tolerance for GM foods in Europe

Mohan Murti

Food is to European culture what free speech is to American culture. There may not always be a good scientific reason for concern, but to consider eating something that has resulted from some laboratory manoeuvring is felt by many Europeans as a kind of refutation of the true self.

Publication Date: 
02/11/2009
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, GM Crops, GMOs, Europe, European Union (EU)
Agriculture

Projected impacts of agricultural biotechnologies for fruits & vegetables in the Philippines & Indonesia

The last three decades witnessed a cascade of scientific discoveries on plant molecular biology and biochemistry that served as foundation of current biotechnologies used in improving agricultural crops. Genes coding for important agricultural traits useful to farmers and consumers

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
George W. Norton, Desiree M. Hautea
International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA)
Tags:
Agriculture, Vegetables, GM Crops, GMOs, Biotechnology, Indonesia, Philippines
Agriculture

When every mouthful is a health risk

Latha Jishnu / New Delhi September 24, 2009, 0:03 IST

Publication Date: 
24/09/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, GM Crops, Health Effects, Health, GMOs
Agriculture

 Biotech is not just GM

Michael Antoniou teaches Molecular Genetics at King

Publication Date: 
14/09/2009
Down to Earth
18
20090915
8
Tags:
Agriculture, Pest Control, Vegetables, Cotton, GM Crops, Health Effects, GMOs, Biotechnology, Scientists
Health

Europe prepares for drugs from GM plants

Commercial development of plant-derived pharmaceuticals has moved forward today with the publication of the first European guidelines for growing these genetically modified (GM) plants.

Publication Date: 
13/08/2009
Natasha Gilbert
Nature
460
7257
791
Tags:
Plant Breeding, Health, Drugs, Food Safety, GMOs, Europe

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