GM WATCH MONTHLY REVIEW No. 44 (29/4/2007)


GM WATCH MONTHLY REVIEW No. 44
FROM REVIEW EDITOR, CLAIRE ROBINSON
[email protected]
www.gmwatch.org / www.lobbywatch.org

German translation of Monthly Review No. 43
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7793

Dutch translation of Monthly Review No. 43 http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7794

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MONTHLY REVIEW No. 44 CONTENTS
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CONTAMINATION
GM BANS / RESTRICTIONS
GM APPLICATIONS / EXPANSION
DISCLOSURE OF SAFETY DATA
BIOFUELS
PHARMA CROPS
GM FAILURES
CORPORATE TAKEOVER
LABELLING
RESISTANCE
LOBBYWATCH
QUOTES OF THE MONTH
rBGH CONTROVERSY
BEE CRISIS
CAMPAIGNS OF THE MONTH

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CONTAMINATION
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+ UNAUTHORIZED GM IN RICE PROTEIN FOR ANIMAL FEED
Animal feed containing unauthorized GM in rice protein has been recalled after being imported into the UK, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Belgium. The discovery came when investigations in Cyprus showed that the GM line Bt63 had been found in rice protein concentrate imported from China.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7802

+ ILLEGAL GM MAIZE FOUND IN ROTTERDAM PORT
A type of GM maize which is illegal in Europe has been found in a consignment of maize pellets in the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7803

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GM BANS / RESTRICTIONS
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+ GREEKS BAN MORE GM CORN AND BLOCK CHINESE RICE
The Greek government has banned 16 types of GM corn from being imported into the country, bringing the total number of banned corn types to 47. Greece took the move despite an EU decision to accept the corn. The ministry also blocked the import of 88 tons of GM-contaminated Chinese rice.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7758

+ LANDMARK LAW BANS GMOs IN NEGROS OCCIDENTAL
The Philippines province of Negros Occidental has passed a landmark law that bans the entry of GM plants and animals.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7801

+ LEADING CYPRIOT POLITICIAN CALLS FOR TOTAL GM BAN
Demetris Christofias, President of the House of Representatives in Cyprus (the Cypriot parliament) has called for a total ban on GM foods.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7800

+ GERMAN COMPANY DENIED PERMIT TO GROW GM RAPESEED IN LITHUANIA
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7734

+ U.S. JUDGE MULLS MAKING ALFALFA BAN PERMANENT
A US judge questioned whether he should lift a ban on the sale and planting of Monsanto's GM alfalfa without a government study of the crop's potential impact. US District Court Judge Charles Breyer, who has already ruled that the government acted illegally in approving the GM alfalfa, issued the preliminary injunction in March and set April 27 as a date to consider whether to make it permanent.

"It is not the court's function to do an environmental impact study," Breyer said during the hearing. "The government ought to do it."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7804

+ SYNGENTA URGED TO RECONSIDER GM CORN SEED SALES
Syngenta's being urged by leading grain trade associations to reverse its plan to commercialize a new GM corn seed for planting this year because it has not obtained regulatory approval in Japan and other US export markets.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7728

+ MINNESOTA STOPS SALE OF SYNGENTA SEED
http://webstar.postbulletin.com/agrinews/288761354001384.bsp

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GM APPLICATIONS / EXPANSION
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+ UK: HONEY FEARS MAY SCUPPER GM POTATO TRIAL
Farmers neighbouring the East Yorkshire farm where BASF is to run one of two UK trials of GM potatoes are concerned about the threat that the GM trial poses to their borage crops due to bee keepers moving their hives away.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7780

+ UK: PLEA TO FARMER TO PULL OUT OF TRIAL
Following a successful protest rally, campaigners have asked the farmer in East Yorkshire on whose field the GM potatoes will be planted to pull out of the trial. Hedon Against GM Campaigner Lee-Ann Williams said: "We have been overwhelmed by the opposition to these trials. Neighbouring farmers, Graham Stuart MP, two local councils and the public don't want GM potatoes planted here."

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