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[Greenpeace - Making Waves] Greenpeace - Making Waves: March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato ...: March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato; China, India ratify Copenhagen Accord. Posted by Melissa Wilson at 11:05 AM. Swiss-anti-GE.jpg. Greenpeace has called for a renewed moratorium ("GE-Free!") in Switzerland on GE crops. ...

[Climate Progress] Energy and Global Warming News for March 4: The new face of ...: Some scientists and environmental groups fear that the marker gene used in Amflora potatoes, which is important for resistance to several infectious diseases, could be taken up by bacteria, increasing their virulence. A review last year by the European Food Safety Authority said such a risk is remote and confirmed the potato as safe to cultivate, though two EFSA members dissented on the decision.

[Didy's Blog] Didy's Blog: Greenpeace - Making Waves: March 10: Opposition in EU to GE-potato; China, India ratify Copenhagen Accord http://dlvr.it/92X2 26 minutes ago; ✉ TMCPoldaMetro: 17:23 Cilandak arah ke Jagakarsa (ruas arteri TB Simatupang) padat merayap, ...

[Say NO to GE Food] GEAC fails the nation, takes the side of Seed Companies on Bt ...: In a survey of pesticide residues in vegetable crops taken at the farm gate and markets from 1999 to 2003 confirmed that of the 3,043 samples, two-thirds were found to have pesticide residues, but these were within accepted tolerances, whereas 9% contained residues above the minimum recommended levels. The increasing amount of insecticide residues in vegetables and fruits has been a major concern to consumers who currently have no choice except to buy brinjals with high insecticide residues, but despite the application of many insecticides the brinjal fruits sold in the market are still of inferior quality, infested with larvae of FSB.

[Jason's blog] An FDA-Created Health Crisis Circles the Globe: the Commission normally keeps this uncertainty concealed from the public whilst presenting its decisions about the safety of GM crops and foods as being certain and scientifically based.” Further, in private “they frequently criticize the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and its assessments of the safety of GM foods and crops, even though the Commission relies on these evaluations to make recommendations to member states. [and] to justify its decisions to approve new GM foods.”[19] For example, the Commission privately condemned the submission information for one crop as “mixed, scarce, delivered consecutively all over years, and not convincing.” They said there is “No sufficient experimental evidence to assess the safety.”[20]

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