GM WATCH MONTHLY REVIEW No. 49 =====================================================
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FROM REVIEW EDITOR, CLAIRE ROBINSON
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Don't forget to tell all your non-English speaking friends that our past Monthly Reviews are now available in Portuguese, Dutch and German at
http://www.gmwatch.org/p1temp.asp?pid=93&page=1
If you could help translate into any other languages, or would like to join our existing teams of volunteer translators, we'd love to hear from you! All our existing translators are listed here.
http://www.gmwatch.org/p1temp.asp?pid=2&page=1
Finally, a very big thank you to all of you who've expressed support and solidarity during the recent attacks on GM Watch. (see PROPAGANDA, FRAUD AND LIBEL)
Claire This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.gmwatch.org / www.lobbywatch.org
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MONTHLY REVIEW CONTENTS
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PROPAGANDA, FRAUD AND LIBEL
NATURE BIOTECH SCANDAL
RESISTANCE/BANS/RESTRICTIONS ON GM
GM APPLICATIONS/EXPANSION/APPROVALS
REGULATION
CONTAMINATION
GM FAILURES
GLYPHOSATE RESISTANCE
BIOFUELS
COMPANY NEWS
DUBIOUS PHILANTHROPY
GM RISKS
ORGANICS
GM HYPE
NEW BOOK
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PROPAGANDA, FRAUD AND LIBEL
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+ AWARD-WINNING PAPER "A FLAGRANT FRAUD" - CAMBRIDGE EXPERT
The famous satirical magazine Private Eye, which is well known for its fearless investigative reporting, has published an excellent article on the recent "Heavy-handed libel threats" against GM Watch's web host by biotech propagandist Shane Morris. Morris made scientific history by co-authoring an award-winning science paper that purported to show that consumers preferred GM sweetcorn to non-GM. The Eye reports, "Alas, the paper did not disclose that above the non-GM corn was a sign asking shoppers: 'Would you eat wormy sweetcorn?', while the GM crop was signed: 'quality sweetcorn'."
Morris's initial complaint against GM Watch was over our use of the "f" word in our article on Morris's paper, which we entitled "Award for a Fraud". We removed the "f" word from our website as it seemed the quickest way to get our site back on line after our web host took it down in response to Morris's claims of "defamation".
But Dr Richard Jennings, a leading expert on research ethics at Cambridge University, makes it clear in the Eye article that in his view the "f" word was entirely appropriate. The article quotes Dr Jennings as saying the paper should have been withdrawn. He adds, "The case is a flagrant fraud as far as I see it. It was a sin of omission by failing to divulge information which quite clearly should have been disclosed." But as the Eye comments, "if the researchers had disclosed the wormy corn labels, would any respected scientific journal have published it?"
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8314
Background to the story:
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8216
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8228
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8240
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8244
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8251
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/BiotechCanadaSLAPPScandal.php
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/morris/index.php
+ WORMY CORN SCIENTISTS' CLAIMS "UNTRUE", EXPERT CONCLUDES
A computer scientist at the University of New South Wales has analysed pictures that Shane Morris claims prove that the controversial "Would you eat wormy sweet corn?" sign - placed above the bin of non-GM corn during the study he co-authored with Doug Powell and others - was taken down early on in the research. The expert concludes that the pictures show the wormy corn sign was never taken down, i.e. the exact opposite of what Morris claims. He writes, "I think that science would have been better served if Powell and Morris had acknowledged the flaws in their study rather than making untrue statements about the 'wormy corn' sign being removed."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8259
Check out the pictures.
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/09/would_you_eat_wormy_sweet_corn.php
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NATURE BIOTECH SCANDAL
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+ NATURE BIOTECH'S "PROFESSIONAL MALPRACTICE"
GM Free Cymru has written an open letter of protest to Andrew Marshall, editor of Nature Biotechnology, over the journal's alleged connivance in a campaign of vilification against the scientist Dr Irina Ermakova. Dr Ermakova's research found ill effects in rats fed GM soy.
The letter asks Andrew Marshall:
Was it through a technical oversight that you allowed four of the best-known apologists for the GM industry to have "free space" in the pages of "Nature Biotechnology" for a premeditated attack on Dr Ermakova, whose findings they happened to find distasteful? ...that you connived with them to induce Dr Ermakova to outline her findings in response to your questions, and then to publish their not-attributed responses? ...that Dr Ermakova was never told the names of the four men who were out to destroy her reputation, and was never shown their comments prior to publication? that some of Dr Ermakova's key references were removed from the article and replaced by 20 new references brought in the bolster the case made by the four GM industry spokesmen? ...that in the correspondence we have seen, Dr Ermakova was clearly given the impression that this was to be "her" article, and was then sent a proof (the only proof she saw) which had her name on it as author?
The letter also says, "It is clear from correspondence with others who have registered their objections that Nature Biotechnology is seeking to keep this away from public scrutiny...
More at http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8322
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8287
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8295
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8273
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RESISTANCE/BANS/RESTRICTIONS ON GM
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+ FRANCE MOVES TOWARDS FREEZE ON GM CROPS?
The French government is planning to seriously reduce the spread of GMOs, says an article in Le Monde. It is preparing to freeze the commercialisation of GM seeds, whilst authorising the continuation of laboratory research. Jean-Louis Borloo, minister for ecology, development and sustainable management, told Le Monde : "Everyone is in agreement on the GM issue: it is not possible to control their spread. So we will not take the risk."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8300
+ GM MAIZE BLOCKED IN EUROPE
Agriculture ministers from 10 EU countries have blocked approval of three GM varieties of maize for use on the European market. Austria, Malta, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg voted against, while France and Italy abstained, ensuring a deadlock. Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden led the group of GM crop supporters.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8326
+ IRISH CITY OF CORK BECOMES A GM-FREE ZONE
The Irish city of Cork is now a GM-free zone, following a motion by Cork City Council which declares the area off-limits to the release of GM seeds and crops.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8325
+ EU COURT RULES AGAINST AUSTRIA FOR GM BAN
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Upper Austria is violating EU law with its ban on GM farming.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8325
+ BENGAL: AGRI PANEL WANTS BAN ON GM TRIALS
Bengal's state agriculture commission has recommended banning field trials of GM crops in the state after the recent controversy over "illegal" field trials in North 24-Parganas.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8296
+ KARNATAKA FARMERS BESIEGE HOUSE OF CHIEF MINISTER
Thousands of peasants and young people from Karnataka State Farmers Association and Green Brigade formed a huge procession in the main streets of Bangalore and later sieged the residence of the chief minister of Karnataka Mr Kumaraswamy on 24 September, with demands beginning from waiver of agricultural loans to banning GM crops in Karnataka.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8320
+ DOES THE AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SUPPORT GM?
As Australian states review their moratoriums on GM planting, Julian Little, chairman of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC), a PR front for the big GM firms, points to Australia as a place where public opinion on GM has turned around: "There's a country that has gone through the moratoriums, has gone through the we're-not-sure, the NGOs have been in there and caused mayhem, and come out the other end saying this is a useful technology and the public support it."
But subscriber Fran Murrell says, "Public opinion in Australia has certainly not changed to support of GM crops and food as stated in this article." While a notorious push poll recently carried out in Australia purported to show that the public were in favour of GM, Fran points out that the poll was full of such biased questions as, "what about genetically modifying plants... (i) to make the food healthier (ii) to make the food last longer", etc.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8309
Dr Judy Carman, director of the Institute of Health and Environmental Research, says the poll didn't ask the question that would measure consumer resistance to GM. This is: "How likely are you to eat any GM food?" The last time this was asked, in 2006, 54% of those surveyed stated that they were unlikely to very unlikely to eat any GM food, a rise from 45% in 2001 and 50% in 2003. Thus consumer resistance to GM has grown in Australia.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8313
GM propagandist David Tribe claims Australia has already lost its GM-free status because "we already import large quantities of GM foods and stock feeds".
But as one of our subscribers says, "It is my understanding this was done as an emergency drought measure only and any seeds had to be denatured before leaving the port area. ... importing a bit of GM stock feed, as worrying as this is, is so completely different from allowing farmers to grow GM canola on a broadacre scale."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8318
+ TEMPORARY VICTORY WON AGAINST GM RICE IN PHILIPPINES
In the Philippines, a court has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the government from approving the application of Bayer Philippines to use GM rice LL62 for food, animal feed and processing.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8280
+ GM BATTLE IN THAILAND
The Thai Cabinet has deferred a decision on whether to permit field testing of GM papaya and tomatoes after facing strong opposition to the releases. An exporter says Thailand has already lost Bt30 million in annual income from the GM contamination of its papaya crop.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8266
+ U.S.: STARBUCKS GOES GM HORMONE-FREE
Starbucks has committed to making 100 percent of the milk supply for its more than 5,600 American locations free of the GM bovine growth hormone rbST/rBGH by the end of the year. Grocery retailer Krogers has also said it would only sell rbST-free milk by early 2008.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8246
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GM APPLICATIONS/EXPANSIONS/APPROVALS
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+ ANOTHER GM CORN "LIBERATED" IN BRAZIL
Brazilian regulator CTNBio has approved another GM corn for commercial cultivation. This time it was Syngenta's Bt 11, an insect resistant variety. The result of the vote on whether to commercialize was announced by a PR company working for the biotech companies before the vote actually took place. At the end of the meeting, one of CTNBio's advisors received an enthusiastic embrace from one of Syngenta's representatives present at the meeting.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8311
+ U.S. BEHIND SOUTH ASIA'S FIRST GM FOOD - BRINJAL
Although GM commodity crops like soya and maize have been flowing in vast quantities unlabelled into the US's processed food supplies, there's been little attempt to push whole food crops - like vegetables - at US consumers. And for good reason - where this has happened, it has spectacularly backfired, as with Monsanto's now abandoned (Bt) New Leaf potatoes, which were firmly rejected by the US food industry.
But no such anxieties seem to apply where the US is pushing GM crops onto the developing world. Bt brinjal (eggplant/aubergine) is being promoted by the US agency for international development (USAID), which has been given a mandate to push GM crops into developing countries' food systems, via the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Program (ABSP II) managed by Cornell. ABSP partners have included Monsanto and other US corporations who stand to benefit from the programme.
Cornell's commercial partner for the Bt brinjal project is Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds company, i.e. Mahyco - Monsanto's Indian subsidiary.
More at: http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8310
+ USDA PUSHING GM RICE IN THAILAND
Having lost market share as a result of its GM rice fiasco, the US Department of Agriculture is working hard to get that market share back by encouraging others down the GM route. According to Dr Brian John of GM Free Cymru, "If GM rice can be made acceptable in the countries of the Far East, a few million tonnes of contaminated US rice can easily be shifted on the international market."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8278
+ S. AFRICA: PROF THOMPSON'S GM SOLUTION TO MAIZE VIRUS
Scientists at the University of Cape Town, including the well known pro-GM lobbyist Prof Jennifer Thompson, and the seed company PANNAR Pty Ltd have reported the development of a GM maize resistant to maize streak virus. Read the African Centre for Biosafety's report.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8301
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REGULATION
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+ GEAC WASHES ITS HANDS OF HEALTH RISKS OF GM FOODS
In an astonishing move, India's apex GM regulator, GEAC has exempted from regulatory approval imported GM foods (as opposed to live GMOs that could reproduce). Kavitha Kuruganti comments that GEAC "has washed its hands of the responsibility for ensuring safety of human and animal health."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8319
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8316
+ INDIA'S REGULATORS CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT OF COURT
Aruna Rodrigues and her co-petitioners have filed for contempt of court against three leading members of India's apex GM regulator, GEAC. The three are charged with allowing trials of GM brinjal (eggplant) and other GM crops to go ahead in spite of the Supreme Court injunction against such trials until biosafety concerns are settled. The other trials that GEAC illegally allowed to go ahead include Bt rice, Bt tomato, Bt okra, more Bt brinjal, and GM groundnuts.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8274
+ BIOTECH INDUSTRY FIGHTS TO AVOID LIABILITY FOR HARM
Despite all their assurances about the complete safety of GM crops, biotech companies are fighting hard to keep two important loopholes in the EU's new environmental liability directive (ELD) that would help them avoid liability if GMOs cause environmental harm. They would be able to argue that, first, they held a permit to release the GMO and, second, that the state of scientific knowledge did not predict a harmful outcome at the time the crop was planted. Allowing these defences would mean that the taxpayer, not the company, would pick up the bill if GM crops damaged a protected site or species.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8317
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CONTAMINATION
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+ ORGANIC INDUSTRY UNDER ASSAULT FROM GM CONTAMINATION
A shipment of organic soybeans sent to an organic processor was found to contain high levels of GM contamination. The samples tested showed GM contamination levels as high as 20%. The processor of organic soybean oil and meal, Nevada Soy Products, reported that they lost $100,000 due to the contamination and their business was closed down for a month.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8315
+ GMOs FOUND IN BABY FOOD AND ORGANICS
In a test carried out by the German magazine "Focus", in two thirds of all products tested there was at least one package per product that contained GMOs. The highest value was found in powdered food for babies with cow milk allergy, but organic products were also found to be contaminated.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8327
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GM FAILURES
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+ INDIA: DEATH BY COTTON
There's a powerful article about Indian farmer suicides as a result of Bt crop failure and indebtedness as a result of expensive GM seeds and other inputs at:
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8306
+ THE DYING FIELDS: PBS FILM ON BT COTTON FARMER SUICIDES http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/vidarbha/index.html#videoplayer
+ INDIA: BT COTTON CROP SET BACK 25% DUE TO PEST ATTACK
The Bt cotton crop in Punjab has suffered a setback following attacks by mealy bug, reports the Wall Street Journal. "According to the (Punjab) agriculture department, even though more area is under the cotton crop this year, production will be approximately 20-25% less," says a government official who did not wish to be identified.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8241
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8294
+ PUNJAB: ECONOMY DOWN, PESTICIDES UP WITH BT COTTON
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8247
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8253
+ PAKISTAN: OUTPUT SET TO FALL AS BT COTTON FAILS
Pakistan will face around 25 percent shortfall of cotton yield due to mealy bug and cotton leaf curl virus (CLCV) attack and reddening of leaf. The spell of rains in the Sindh and Punjab cotton growing belts affected the quality and the volume of Bt cotton in particular.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8294
+ GM DRAGS DOWN VALUE OF FARMERS' CROPS
Farmer Peter Lungren writes that the huge expansion of GM maize and soy in the USA, along with Argentina and Brazil, has dragged down the world price of grains - and that is having an impact on the viability of farms.
Lungren says the world price of grains is set by the Chicago Board of Trade and is therefore sensitive to the USA grains market.
When the USA adopted GM varieties and failed to ensure segregation of GM and GM-free varieties, the USA lost its two most profitable markets - Japan and Europe. That left the USA attempting to dump its excess grain (mainly GM) onto the world market or into food aid. Both actions have dragged down the world price. Now that the Bush administration is pouring funding into biofuel production, the previously exportable surplus of GM maize is in demand by the domestic bioethanol industry. Suddenly the dragging effect has been removed and we have seen the world price of grains double in a few months.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8305
Craig Sams' comment: http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8307
+ BT CORN IS MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO APHIDS
A study shows that most of the GM maize lines tested against their conventional equivalents are more susceptible to aphids. http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8241
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GLYPHOSATE RESISTANCE
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+ ARGENTINA PAMPAS CROPS THREATENED BY HERBICIDE-RESISTANT WEED
Glyphosate-resistant weeds have spread throughout much of Argentina's Pampas, threatening to drive up the cost of growing soybeans and other crops genetically modified for resistance to the herbicide, Daniel Ploper, plant pathologist for the national food and animal health inspection service, or Senasa, in Tucuman Province said.
The spread of the resistant Johnson Grass could increase agricultural production costs by 500 million to 3 billion Argentine pesos ($160-$950 million) per year, according to Cordoba province Congressman Alberto Cantero. Combatting the strain will require the use of 25 million liters of herbicides other that glyphosate each year, he said. "This could double herbicide costs in the effected areas," Ploper said.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8323
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BIOFUELS
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+ RAPESEED BIOFUELS "PRODUCES MORE GREENHOUSE GAS THAN OIL OR PETROL"
A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests. Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived from rapeseed and maize have been found to produce more greenhouse gas emissions than they save.
Dr Dave Reay, of the University of Edinburgh, used the findings to calculate that with the US Senate aiming to increase maize ethanol production sevenfold by 2022, greenhouse gas emissions from transport will rise by 6 per cent.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8304
+ FRIENDS OF THE EARTH REJECTS BIOFUEL TARGETS
Friends of the Earth is calling for the EU Commission to scrap its target for using plant-based biofuels for transport, after a leaked paper revealed the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has grave concerns about their social and environmental effects. The report says the environmental impact of biofuels can be worse than that of petrol and diesel, as natural forests, wetlands and pasture will be replaced with dedicated crops grown for energy.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8304
+ GM DANGERS OF THE UC BERKELEY-BP BIOFUELS DEAL
An unpublished letter to California magazine by UC Berkeley alumnus Erica Martenson points out that the heart of the proposed research to be done as part of the UC Berkeley-BP deal involves genetically engineering microbes to break down the cell walls of plants to produce fuel.
When Japanese researchers from Kyoto University genetically altered yeast cells and analyzed them, they found that inserting genes into yeast cells disturbed their metabolism and led to the accumulation of an unwanted toxic compound, methylglyoxal, at a mutagenic level. The US government doesn't require any safety tests on GMOs before they are released into the environment.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8308
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COMPANY NEWS
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+ GM COMPANIES REFUSE TO SUPPLY SEED FOR TRIALS Western Australia's state agriculture minister Kim Chance said the GM trials, scheduled for Esperance next year, are in danger of not going ahead. Mr Chance confirmed that the South East Premium Wheat Growers Association (SEPWA), which he approved to conduct the trials, has hit a brick wall in its attempts to source GM seed from Monsanto and Bayer.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8238
+ MONSANTO WANTS TO TRIPLE BIOTECH ACRES
Monsanto has predicted in a press release that it could triple the amount of farming acres planted worldwide with its GM seeds. But Laurel Hopwood, chair of the Sierra Club's biotechnology committee, said, "It's very clear that people don't want it. I would call Monsanto's press release industry spin."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8324
+ GM CONCERNS HIT GLOBAL ENZYMES MARKET
Consumer concerns over GM have led to a surge in demand for naturally-sourced enzymes, that can avoid the "GMO stigma", says an article for NutraIngredients.com.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8328
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DUBIOUS PHILANTHROPY
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+ AFRICA: A BLUNT PHILANTHROPIC ARROW
The Rockefeller and Gates Foundations plan to jointly plough $150,000,000 into their so-called Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). But the biotech solutions proposed by AGRA are likely to deepen rather than solve problems of hunger, poverty and malnutrition in Africa, says Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8330
+ REJECTION OF U.S. FOOD AID BY NGO SIGNALS CHANGE IN HUNGER POLICY
CARE, a top US aid organization, has walked away from tens of millions of dollars in annual US federal financing. In opting out of the mechanism by which donated US food aid is transported overseas and sold in local markets to fund anti-poverty programmes - a process known as monetization - CARE joins a growing number of international groups demanding an end to a policy they say can be harmful to the countries being helped.
RELATED QUOTE from Food First:
The US food aid system appears to disregard the rights and concerns of recipient citizens in order to assure profits for US agribusiness giants. It is a system that allows for the misspending of public funds in ways that benefit the private sector; a system that takes advantage of the lack of regulation concerning the genetic engineering of food; and a system that undermines democratic decision making about food consumption.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8250
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GM RISKS
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+ "ECONOMICS, NOT COMMON SENSE, DRIVES GM CROPS"
In an important article in the UK Independent, Dr Michael Antoniou argues that GM crops are dangerous and unnecessary: "We don't need GM crops. Crop genetic diversity is enormous and can be exploited through natural cross-breeding aided by modern genetic screening technologies. The problems we have in agriculture are social and political. What is driving GM crops is economics."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8321
+ IS IM BETTER THAN GM?
Gene bashers are touting intragenic modification (IM) as a new, safer, and more publicly acceptable method of GM that transforms plants with native genetic elements only. But Dr Michael Antoniou, reader in medical and molecular genetics at Kings College, London, says the IM hype is deceptive:
"The point is that 'IM' is very much still a 'GM' process involving the random insertion of a transgene into the plant host DNA. Therefore, IM will be prone to all the highly mutagenic effects of the GM transformation process."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8272
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ORGANICS
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+ UN's FOOD AND AG ORG COMES OUT IN FAVOUR OF ORGANICS
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has come out in favour of organic agriculture. Its report, "Organic Agriculture and Food Security" states that organic agriculture can address local and global food security challenges.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8268
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GM HYPE
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+ UK: ANONYMOUS GOVT SOURCE CLAIMS GM IS BACK
A front page article in the UK Guardian quoted an anonymous government source as saying that ministers had given their backing to a renewed campaign by farmers and industry to introduce GM crops to the UK. This was quickly followed by a denial of the story from Defra (the government's department of environment, food and rural affairs).
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8283
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8284
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8290
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8292
+ LMers HOPE THE RUMOUR IS TRUE
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8291
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NEW BOOK
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A highly informative new book on biosafety has been published, called Biosafety first: Holistic Approaches to Risk and Uncertainty in Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms, by Terje Traavik and Lim Li Ching (eds.).
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8281