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2007-04-24 | permalink
Proposed laws ’to release untested GMOs’
The federal government will be able to release untested genetically modified organisms into the environment under proposed new emergency response laws, activists say. Greenpeace and Gene Ethics told a parliamentary inquiry in separate submissions they were concerned that the broad terms of proposed legislation could allow governments to release potentially dangerous biological agents for almost any reason. [...] A clause in the proposed amendment would allow the minister to speed up the release of a genetically modified organism (GMO) in response to an emergency.
- Sydney Morning Herald, Australia: Proposed laws ’to release untested GMOs’
- The Age, Australia: GM trial sows hope for farmers
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia: Farmer rejects GM crops support claim
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia: Shire to lobby for GM cotton crops in the Kimberley
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2007-04-24 | permalink
Proposed laws ’to release untested GMOs’
The federal government will be able to release untested genetically modified organisms into the environment under proposed new emergency response laws, activists say. Greenpeace and Gene Ethics told a parliamentary inquiry in separate submissions they were concerned that the broad terms of proposed legislation could allow governments to release potentially dangerous biological agents for almost any reason. [...] A clause in the proposed amendment would allow the minister to speed up the release of a genetically modified organism (GMO) in response to an emergency.
- Sydney Morning Herald, Australia: Proposed laws ’to release untested GMOs’
- The Age, Australia: GM trial sows hope for farmers
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia: Farmer rejects GM crops support claim
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia: Shire to lobby for GM cotton crops in the Kimberley
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