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 …
Chronic health effects are increasing in the world such as cancers, hormonal, reproductive, nervous, or immune diseases, even in young people. During regulatory toxicological subchronic tests to prevent these on mammalian health, prior commercialization of chemicals, including pesticides and drugs, or GMOs, some statistically significant findings may be revealed. This …
This document has been written in response to Mahyco's dossier in the public domain and a request for an appraisal of the data by lead petitioner in the Supreme Court of India, Aruna Rodrigues. This review concentrates on the food safety evaluation done by Mahyco as reported in Chapter 7 …
Genetically modified (GM) soya was introduced into Argentina in 1996 without any kind of debate either in Congress or among the public. Since then, its cultivation has spread across the country like wildfire. Today more than half of the country
The dossiers submitted by Mahyco in support of their application for commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) Bt brinjal raise serious concerns. Bt brinjal has been modified to produce an unknown chimeric insecticide toxin containing Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac modified sequences. In the toxicity tests on target and non-target insects, this chimeric …
Kounteya Sinha, TNN NEW DELHI: Genetically modified (GM) crops are now under the health ministry's scanner. Even as the ministry of environment readies to introduce GM food like the Bt Brinjal in India, Union health minister A Ramadoss has promised to oppose the move till proper research is conducted on …
KANCHEEPURAM: Union Minister for Health Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday said that he would oppose any move to introduce genetically modified food or seeds in the agriculture sector. Addressing a State-level farmer
The study conducted by AFIC on how consumers in India perceive the use of biotechnology to produce foods. It reveals that the most common food safety concern are pesticide residues, food poisoning, and food from unknown source. Genetically modified foods will most likely become an increasing feature of the Asian …
At the end of its first three years, the Indo-United States Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture is recommending changes in regulation to suit US commercial interests. This article, based on a reading of the minutes of the KIA board
Mumbai, November 20 If you thought bio-engineering experiments are confined strictly to grains, fruits and vegetable crops, here's a piece of news. Two new genetically modified species of bougainvillea
V Gangadharan Chennai MEDICAL practitioners, biotechnologists, farmers and traders are worried over the threat of unhealthy Genetically Modified vegetables making their way into the market. Voices urging the Centre to prevent entry of these vegetables into the Indian market were raised at a Greenpeace press meet here. Former Dean, Sri …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi November 05, 2008, 0:54 IST Even as the debate over safety and essentiality of genetically modified (GM) foods continues, Indian research institutes are trying to genetically modify some high-value medicinal herbs that are an integral part of ayurvedic medicine, a recent report of pro-environment …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo The protesting organisations and leaders have been visiting premier educational institutes, including leading universities of the state, and sensitizing the students about the
Since the last decade crop improvement using genetic engineering tools is one of the alternative approaches to increase and stabilise agricultural production in the world. However, producing a transgenic plant is a long and expensive process. Even after it led to the successful development of a plant with a desired …
Russian biologist irina ermakova, whose research showed deadly effects of genetically modified soya on rats, spoke to savvy soumya misra about the experiments at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow On the effects of GM soya on rats The research determines a clear …
LONDON Prince Charles, an avowed opponent of genetically modified crops, has said that genetically- modified farming techniques were responsible for suicides by small farmers in India. Delivering the Sir Albert Howard Memorial Lecture via video link to Dr Vandana Shiva
