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2007-05-02 | permalink
GE pharma crops grown by SemBioSys in Chile cannot enter Canada
Close to 200 tonnes of a genetically modified seed, which is not allowed anywhere near Canadian dinner tables or farm fields, is sitting at a Chilean port waiting to be loaded onto a ship for Vancouver. The safflower seed, laden with fish growth hormone, was due to leave today, slip into Vancouver in a few weeks and be trucked to Calgary for processing, say the Canadian entrepreneurs who engineered the seed for use in aquaculture. But their plan is in limbo because the federal government late last week refused to issue the permit needed to import the seed into Canada.
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2007-05-02 | permalink
GE pharma crops grown by SemBioSys in Chile cannot enter Canada
Close to 200 tonnes of a genetically modified seed, which is not allowed anywhere near Canadian dinner tables or farm fields, is sitting at a Chilean port waiting to be loaded onto a ship for Vancouver. The safflower seed, laden with fish growth hormone, was due to leave today, slip into Vancouver in a few weeks and be trucked to Calgary for processing, say the Canadian entrepreneurs who engineered the seed for use in aquaculture. But their plan is in limbo because the federal government late last week refused to issue the permit needed to import the seed into Canada.
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