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Bio-safety critique & guidelines recommended by Dr Bhargava [1]

Six outstanding issues sum up just how faulty and perfunctory the Regulator's approach to bio-safety has been. Even the current inadequate norms for safety testing have NOT been applied to GM food crops like Bt okra and Bt brinjal before they were field tested. A. In No case has there been an appropriate and comprehensive risk assessment.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2008
Tags:
Food Crops [2], GM Crops [3], Chronic Toxicity [4], Biosafety [5], Bt Brinjal [6]
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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-crops
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gm-crops
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/chronic-toxicity
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biosafety
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bt-brinjal