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2009-05-29 | permalink
Change to Ecuador’s GM laws ’could allow suicide seeds’
Moves by Ecuador’s president to veto legislation covering genetically modified organisms could let controversial ’terminator’ seeds into the country, campaigning groups claim. [...] The interim Transitional Assembly approved a new law on food sovereignty earlier in the year (17 February). Article 26 of the law states that ”raw materials containing transgenic inputs may only be imported and processed, provided they meet the requirements of health and safety, and their reproductive capacity is disabled by the breaking of grains”.
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2009-05-29 | permalink
Change to Ecuador’s GM laws ’could allow suicide seeds’
Moves by Ecuador’s president to veto legislation covering genetically modified organisms could let controversial ’terminator’ seeds into the country, campaigning groups claim. [...] The interim Transitional Assembly approved a new law on food sovereignty earlier in the year (17 February). Article 26 of the law states that ”raw materials containing transgenic inputs may only be imported and processed, provided they meet the requirements of health and safety, and their reproductive capacity is disabled by the breaking of grains”.
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