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2006-12-11 | permalink
China delays GM rice, again
China, the world's biggest rice producer and consumer, has further delayed the introduction of genetically modified rice amid growing concerns about biosafety. Chinese authorities approved several varieties of GM rice for human consumption in early 2005 but they never cleared the rice for licencing to farmers. Further discussion by the country's biosafety committee last month has brought no further progress in commercializing the crops. At its bi-annual meeting, the committee sent back Bt rice for more testing, one of its members, Lu Baorong from Shanghai Fudan University, told Reuters.
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2006-12-11 | permalink
China delays GM rice, again
China, the world's biggest rice producer and consumer, has further delayed the introduction of genetically modified rice amid growing concerns about biosafety. Chinese authorities approved several varieties of GM rice for human consumption in early 2005 but they never cleared the rice for licencing to farmers. Further discussion by the country's biosafety committee last month has brought no further progress in commercializing the crops. At its bi-annual meeting, the committee sent back Bt rice for more testing, one of its members, Lu Baorong from Shanghai Fudan University, told Reuters.
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