The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India on 18th November 2022, notified the Food Safety and Standards (Genetically Modified Foods) (Draft) Regulations, 2022. This regulation shall apply to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) intended for food use, Food ingredients produced from GMOs that contain modified DNA and Food ingredients produced …
Ministry of Environment and Forests decision on commercialisation of Bt-Brinjal. See also: http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/Annex_BT.pdf
This report by Friends of the Earth - International shows that there is growing opposition to genetically modified (GM) crops in many parts of the world. People and governments are extremely cautious about the adoption of GM crops due to escalating public concern about their socio-economic, environmental, and health impacts. …
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday rebutted his senior colleague and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar over the introduction of Bt Brinjal, contesting his stand that the decision of an expert panel giving clearance is final and Centre does not have any say. Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh …
The Environment Minister, Mr. Jairam Ramesh chaired the first in a series of nationwide consultations on the issue of BT Brinjal at Kolkata. Organised by the MoEF and CEE this consultation aims at giving the public a forum where meaningful debate on the issue can take place before a final …
BHUBANESWAR: When Union Minister of Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh would arrive here for a national consultation on Bt Brinjal on Monday next, he may be greeted with protests from social activists and people who have been resisting entry of genetically modified seeds into the country. The MoEF has decided …
Nagercoil: The Consumer Research Education Action Training and Empowerment Trust here urged the Government not to commercialise Bt. Brinjal. In a memorandum sent to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, Chairperson on United Progressive Alliance and Union Minister of Commerce, Anand Sharma, the Managing Trustee, Ponnambalam, said that owing to the …
Assessment of the immunotoxicological effects of GMOs has mainly focused on the allergenic potential of genetically modified proteins whereas general immunotoxicological investigations of whole GMOs are not described in the literature. This finding, together with the findings of a Bt-specific IgE response in humans working with Bt pesticides reported by …
The widespread adoption of Bt cotton in India illustrates why and how evasion of both bio-property and bio-safety regimes is pervasive globally, said Prof Ronald J. Herring, Cornell University. A Professor of Government and Director of the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Prof Herring made this observation …
Bill by Department of Biotechnology to establish Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India as an autonomous and statutory agency to regulate research, transport, import, manufacture and use of organisms & products of modern biotechnology. Bill for establishment of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authoity of India to regulate the research, transport, import, manufacture …
As eight states have said no to Union government's plan to approve Bt Brinjal, this timely booklet by Greenpeace details its impacts on environment & health and opposes the commercial release of this GM Crop. Greenpeace believes that GMOs should not be released into the environment as there is no …
The issues relating to Genetically Modified Crops have generated intense public debate, engaging the attention of the Government, the farming community and the civil society. Though it has been widely claimed that genetically engineered foods will go a long way in tackling food security issues of the 21 st century, …
The French High Biotech Council, in charge of advising the French Government on a wide range of biotech issues and composed of a scientific committee and a socio-economic committee, released its first report defining biotech-free production. The report includes recommendations to label products with "GMO-free" when containing less than 0.1 …
Mohan Murti Food is to European culture what free speech is to American culture. There may not always be a good scientific reason for concern, but to consider eating something that has resulted from some laboratory manoeuvring is felt by many Europeans as a kind of refutation of the true …
The last three decades witnessed a cascade of scientific discoveries on plant molecular biology and biochemistry that served as foundation of current biotechnologies used in improving agricultural crops. Genes coding for important agricultural traits useful to farmers and consumers were discovered, isolated and introduced into cultivated crops using modern tools …
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi September 24, 2009, 0:03 IST Jeffrey M Smith, a former consultant to industry, is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology. The institute works with well-known scientists to educate the public about the dangers of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and is in the forefront …
Commercial development of plant-derived pharmaceuticals has moved forward today with the publication of the first European guidelines for growing these genetically modified (GM) plants.
