Too much curry for GE-free protestors
Protest activity was muted and an attempt to disrupt the ERMA hearing on an application for a field trial of GM onions
failed as a result of prompt action by ERMA staff member Kevin Curry.Part way... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5209
Benefits Seen in GM Onion Trial
Federated Farmers of New Zealand (Inc) will this week back an application from a government-owned research company to
field test onions genetically modified to tolerate a common herbicide.Hugh Rit... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5193
Survey reveals consumer behaviour with GM foods
New research shows that food companies will have to cut their prices if they want to sell genetically modified food in
Europe - if consumers bother to read the labels. Professor Bernard Ruffieux, ... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5199
Old-school genetics still delivering
With all the debate surrounding the lifting of the GM moratorium, it is easy to forget that New Zealand farmers have
modified genetics for more than 50 years, Liam Dann writes in the NZ Herald. Th... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5205
Business as usual for NZ seed industry
The New Zealand seed industry is not expecting major changes now the country's two-year moratorium on genetically
modified crops has ended, ABC News reports.While the peak farming body in New Zeal... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5206
Half-truths and GM
About 500,000 poor Asian children go blind every year because they are short of Vitamin A, Bob Brockie writes in a
letter to the Dominion Post.In a recent column I reported that Ingo Potrykus, the... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5197
Biotenz News Update - 31 October 2003
The latest issue of Biotenz News Update has been posted to the Biotenz website Index: New Legislation in Place as
Moratorium ExpiresVirionyx Drug Sparks US InterestRemindersShift in GM ... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5196
Study supports co-existence
The responsibility for keeping organic produce free of transgenic material should not fall on the shoulders of
genetically-modified crops producers, according to a new study.The study on co-existe... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5200
Japan accepts NZ dough from sandwich maker
Products from Taranaki bakery Yarrows have again been accepted for entry into Japan. More than 90 Subway stores in Japan
stopped selling sandwiches last week after it was discovered bread dough, m... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5188
Answers lie in GM field trials, NSW Farmers Assn
If large-scale trials for genetically modified (GM) canola go ahead, they would help answer many crucial questions for
farmers and the general community about growing and selling GMOs, according to th... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5214
Clone products okay to eat
Meat and milk from cloned animals are safe, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded in a preliminary
report intended to help determine whether the agency should regulate such products ... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5189