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2007-04-24 | permalink
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.
2007-04-24 | permalink
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.
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