The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has urged Europe's top scientists to 'make a difference' to the food safety system by joining its teams of risk assessment experts.
Romer Labs has taken a leap forward in its pathogen detection services by purchasing US biotech firm Strategic Diagnostics’ (SDIX’s) food safety and genetically modified organism (GMO) businesses for $13.5m, it claims.
The launch of the European Commission's organic logo, scheduled for
2009, has been delayed following complaints it was too similar to a
symbol used by German supermarket Aldi.
The European Food Safety Authority has moved to restate it plans
for co-operation with member states in the risk assessment of
genetically modified (GM) foods, as the EU Environment Council's
discussion on the subject looms into...
In time for EU enlargement on 1 May and in light of the tough new
GMO rules enforced in mid-April, twenty-four national enforcement
laboratories from the accession countries last week became part of
the European Network of Genetically...
The US agriculture department will 'update and strengthen'
its biotechnology regulations for imports, interstate movement and
environmental release of certain genetically modified organisms
(GMOs), the government body said...
Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has warned delegates at a
conference on organic farming that food which is completely free of
genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is a thing of the past,
reports CORDIS.
After months of risk assessment scientists at Europe's first food
safety agency have given the green light to Monsanto's
herbicide-tolerant GM maize. NK 60 is as safe as conventional
maize, they declare.
UK prime minister Tony Blair has responded to a letter sent to him
on behalf of 114 scientists, criticising his handling of the debate
over genetically modified organisms (GMOs), saying that the
government would make its decision...
Undecided limits on the amount of genetically modified organisms in
cereal and vegetable seeds have thrown the GMO debate into further
disarray, as EU setbacks delay voting until Spring next year.
The European Commission has referred 11 Member States to the
European Court of Justice for failing to transpose EU legislation
on the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
into the environment into national law,...
MEPs in the Parliament's environment committee have voted in favour
of stricter measures governing accidental contamination and the
labelling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), reports
Cordis.
As the European Commission tells member states to tow the EU line
over genetically modified organisms, the issue continues to gain
pace elsewhere in the world. A report released today in New Zealand
on the economic risks and opportunities...
At a meeting of the Environment Council in Brussels on 4 March, the
Commission told EU environment ministers that a decision on new
authorisations of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is not
expected before autumn 2003.
Radical draft European laws on the labelling and tracing of
genetically modified organisms could jeopardise US agricultural
exports worth more than $4bn a year, a senior US official warned
yesterday.
Brazil's government has created a committee to revise the rules on
labelling products that contain genetically modified organisms, or
GMOs, in an effort to clear the legal barriers to the sale of such
produce, according to a...
More tests are needed to determine the possible health side-effects
of genetically modified organisms, France's food safety agency
AFSSA said in a report to the government this week,
Lower crude soyoil prices are not tempting west European consumers,
who continue to prefer other soft oils that do not contain
genetically modified organisms (GMOs), dealers said on Friday.
The debate over labelling foods for genetically modified organisms
(GMO) might help consumers decide if they want to purchase those
products, but what...
A working group for an international task force on standards made
from genetically modified organisms started its second meeting on
Monday in Tokyo to...
