Will GM Free be Free Traded Away?
Will losing the right to choose GM Free food be a price of the next and biggest free trade deal?
The US has made clear that …
Semantically Engineered Grasses
Despite ongoing market resistance to use of the technology in the food chain and in key export markets, Pastoral Genomics and AgResearch are each committing tens of millions of …
Hide and Seek
Developers Skirt Around Detectability of Cisgenic GMOs.
Lack of transparency by the GM food industry has been a driver of market resistance to its products. Research in New Zealand and …
New Zealand GM Pasture Grass R+D
Three Programmes and a New Technology
Tens of millions of public science dollars have been directed to the development of GM pasture species in New Zealand over the last two …
Betting the farm
If New Zealand chose not to approve the use of GM grasses developed by Pastoral Genomics, no economic penalty is expected as a non-GM technique could provide the same …
No Economic Penalty if GM Grass Bypassed
If New Zealand chose not to approve the use of GM grasses developed by Pastoral Genomics, no economic penalty is expected as a non-GM technique could provide the same …
ESR Questions Safety of a GM Food – NZFSA Shops for “Updated” Advice
New Zealand’s food safety regulator ‘shopped’ for alternative advice when a report it had commissioned from ESR questioned the safety of a GM food.
The original report by Dr Lou …
Credibility of Food Safety Regulation takes a Significant Hit
The credibility of New Zealand’s food safety regulation has taken a significant hit today with the approval of GM lysine corn as a human food.
There were not just one …
NZ Has Strong Grounds for Rejecting GM Lysine Corn Decision
New Zealand has strong grounds for rejecting the application to make GM lysine corn a legal food. Significant health risks remain untested and the credibility of New Zealand’s food …
