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2007-01-09 | permalink
Wine industry and environmentalists eye government over GMO applications
The government is being watched like a hawk by the wine industry and environmentalists as it prepares to make two key decisions on the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in wine. The first relates to an application by Professor JJ Hennie van Vuuren, director of the British Columbia Wine Research Centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, to use genetically modified yeast in wine-making in 20 wine- producing regions of the western and southern Cape. The second - completely unrelated - is by Stellenbosch University's Wine Biotechnology Institute for field trials for genetically modified (GM) grapevines to produce both fruit and wine for research purposes.
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2007-01-09 | permalink
Wine industry and environmentalists eye government over GMO applications
The government is being watched like a hawk by the wine industry and environmentalists as it prepares to make two key decisions on the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in wine. The first relates to an application by Professor JJ Hennie van Vuuren, director of the British Columbia Wine Research Centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, to use genetically modified yeast in wine-making in 20 wine- producing regions of the western and southern Cape. The second - completely unrelated - is by Stellenbosch University's Wine Biotechnology Institute for field trials for genetically modified (GM) grapevines to produce both fruit and wine for research purposes.
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