GM Discussion : November 25, 2003
GM Discussion : November 25, 2003
1. Farm scale results
spun by both sides - Lord May
2. NZBio appoints CEO to
lead industry growth
3. Lawyer to study GE ban for
Northern Council
4. Europe plans GM plant vaccine trials
for 2004
5. Concern grows over EU labelling laws
6.
Out of Africa
Farm scale results spun by both sides -
Lord May
Both sides in the UK's increasingly polarised
debate over genetically modified crops have been accused of
misrepresenting recent research results. Lord May, President
of the Royal Society, says op...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5403
NZBio
appoints CEO to lead industry growth
NZBio, a new
organisation formed in September as a single voice for the
biotechnology industry, has today announced the appointment
of a Chief Executive Officer, Brian Ward, who will lead it
in buildi...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5393
Lawyer
to study GE ban for Northern Council
One of the country's
top lawyers is to help Northland councils find out if they
can regulate against allowing genetically engineered (GE)
organisms to be released in the region. GE has stirred
Nor...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5399
Europe
plans GM plant vaccine trials for 2004
Human testing will
shortly begin on the first vaccines to be obtained from
genetically modified plants, European National Biotechnology
Committee President Leonardo Santi announced recently.
S...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5395
Concern
grows over EU labelling laws
New labelling requirements
in Europe will make United States crops more costly to
export and could open U.S. farmers and grain handlers to new
liabilities, participants said at a recent forum.
...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5396
Out
of Africa
The thing which strikes me straight away,
flying into Johannesburg, is how brown everything is. Not
much evidence here of the lush green colours which are such
a feature of the New Zealand landscape....
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5400
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Francis Wevers - Executive
Director
Christine Ross - Communications Assistant,
Wellington