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The Indian National Biodiversity Authority (INBA) is prosecuting US based bio-company, Monsanto for modifying the genetics of aubergines (brinjal in India). The charges follow the release in some Asian countries of insect resistant Bt aubergine.
Chinese transgenic scientists have succeeded in producing a sheep cloned with roundworm fat that produces ‘natural’ amounts of polyunsaturated fat. This is the so called healthy fat recommended for human diets by nutritionists.
Genetic science is offering a potential change to one of New Zealand’s strongest traditions – a wedge of orange for players at half time.
A farmer of genetically modified (GM) crops is being sued by a neighbour in what is a test case against the spread of GM farming.
Fifty-five members of the US Congress have publically called on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make GE labelling of food compulsory.
BASF has abandoned research into genetic engineering of food crops in Europe following the commercial failure of its antibiotic resistant potato, Amflora, and continued opposition to modified genetics in the food chain.
Food Safety Australia New Zealand has called for submissions on an application to change the Food Standards Code to allow for food derived from a corn line genetically modified to be tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate.
Agriculture multinational Monsanto has won its latest battle with the French government in its attempts to reverse a ban on genetically modified corn, MON810.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has called for submissions on an application by Syngenta Seeds to change the Food Standards Code to include food derived from a genetically modified corn product.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has called for submissions, on proposed change to the Food Standards Code, to allow food derived from a genetically modified soybean.
The newly announced list of top scoring restaurants in the 2013 Michelin Guide to the British Isles is a restatement of the status quo, with no new three star establishments, and none losing their position either.
The European Court of Justice ruling that honey contaminated with pollen from GE modified crops cannot be sold on the EU retail market without being subject to health and safety checks is a blow to both honey producers and synthesised agribusinesses.
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