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Three Starch Producers Call for Approval of GM Potato
Three potato starch producers see amylopectin starch from genetically enhanced potatoes as a commercial opportunity and see no reason to withhold the ...
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EFSA Requested to Advise on "Safeguard Clause" invoked by France to Stop GM Maize
The European Food Safety Authority says it has been asked by the European Commission to give advice in relation to a GM maize strain. MON 810 insect-r...
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GM Rape Can Persist for 10 Years in Seedbank
A study that has implications for the coexistence of genetically modified (GM) crops with conventional varieties suggests that GM rape can survive...
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Europe Authorises GM Maize GA21
The European Commission has adopted a Decision authorising the GM maize GA21 for feed and food use and for import and processing.
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EFSA Gives Opinion GM Carnation
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)'s Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO Panel) has commented that a proposal to import car...
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UK Lifts Double Testing of US GM Rice
The UK Food Standards Agency has written to enforcement authorities and other stakeholders to inform them that the emergency measures controlling the ...
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Selectively Terminable Transgenic Rice Offers Biocontainment
A method of creating selective terminable transgenic rice was reported by the scientists of Zhejiang University, China in this week’s PLoS ONE.
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AATF to Develop Drought-Tolerant Maize for Africa
The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has announced a public-private partnership to develop drought-tolerant maize varieties for Afric...
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Transgenic Rice Gene Expression Less Varied Than For Radiation-Induced Mutants
A microarray study has shown that the improvement of a rice variety through the acquisition of a new desired trait, using either mutagenesis or transg...
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EFSA Report on Animal Feeding Trials in GM Plants Published
Food and Chemical Toxicology (a peer-reviewed scientific journal) –has just published an European Food Standards Agency self-task Report which assesse...
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