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Threat To NZ Exports If Minister Changes GMO Rules
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 10:11 am | GE Free NZ
GE-Free New Zealand members, many communities and growers around the country are alarmed over the Environment Minister Amy Adams plans to remove any capacity for Councils and communities to safeguard their region. More >>
NZ Exports Face Destruction If Minister Changes GMO Rules
Friday, 28 June 2013, 10:50 am | GE Free NZ
GE-Free New Zealand members, many communities and growers around the country are alarmed over the Environment Minister Amy Adams plans to remove any capacity for Councils and communities to safeguard their region. More >>
Food Safety Minister to table GE Freeze Petition
Monday, 24 June 2013, 4:30 pm | GE Free NZ
Food Safety Minister has confirmed that she will table an 1800 signature petition asking her to Freeze all new GE applications and review existing ones, in Parliament that GE Free NZ presented to the Minister at a meeting last week. More >>
Minister receives signature petition to review GE foods
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 3:49 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ met with the Food Safety Minister, Nikki Kaye, and her policy advisers to request an immediate review of the latest herbicide tolerant GE soy that is resistant to being sprayed with 2,4-D, Round Up and Glufosinate, she approved for our food ... More >>
Wheat imports must be tested for unapproved GE contamination
Friday, 31 May 2013, 9:07 am | GE Free NZ
The Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) and all importers of wheat products from the USA must act upon the report that unapproved experimental herbicide resistant GE wheat has been found in Oregon fields.[1] An immediate embargo must be placed ... More >>
New Zealand Marchers “Don’t want GMO’s"
Monday, 27 May 2013, 9:17 am | GE Free NZ
Two thousand people in the 14 cities over New Zealand showed yesterday what they thought of GE. Rotorua was the first city to march in the World’s global day of "Marches against Monsanto" protesting about GE plant technology. There ... More >>
New Zealand a GE Free Nation - Keep Monsanto's GE seeds out
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 9:13 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand a GE Free Nation - Keep Monsanto's GE seeds out. May 25th 3pm – Speakers include Sister Loyola, voted New Zealand's top gardener in 2008. More >>
Anger against the “deafness” of GE food regulators
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 2:51 pm | GE Free NZ
Anger against the “deafness” and “conflict of interest” of GE food regulators has prompted actions in cities around New Zealand and 276 cities around the World to highlight the dangers that the GE plants pose to all sectors of the population. More >>
GE plants a major source of formaldehyde exposure?
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 9:43 am | GE Free NZ
New information on the levels of nutrients in glyphosate-tolerant (Roundup-tolerant) GE corn plants grown alongside non-GE plants shows that GE plants do not have the capacity to maintain health. The findings are very concerning, with respect to the ... More >>
Concern Raised on Impact of GE in Formula
Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 11:43 am | GE Free NZ
It is time that questions about the possible effects of GE ingredients in infant formula are answered by food safety officials. More >>
Scientists Warn on GE Food Safety Protocol
Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 9:42 am | GE Free NZ
Scientists who have been warning about risks from untested GE foods have proposed a new testing protocol to protect human health. Intervention is urgently needed to stop food authorities pushing on with approvals and to adopt a new protocol of proper ... More >>
Time To End Subsidy for GE Self-Sabotage
Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 9:11 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand's legislation for GE organisms needs to be overhauled to enforce strict liability in order to stop unacceptable risk-taking by developers of commercial GMOs. More >>
Food Safety Regulations Under Scrutiny
Tuesday, 19 March 2013, 11:03 am | GE Free NZ
The Regulatory Disputes Select Committee met on the 14th March to look at a submission by GE Free New Zealand to "stop the clock" on the approval of a transgenic soybean designed to withstand a cocktail of three chemicals: 2,4-D, RoundUp and Glufosinate. ... More >>
Definition of 'Milk' Must Not be Changed Under FDA / TPP Ag
Thursday, 14 March 2013, 9:28 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand's recent food safety agreement with the US FDA must not be allowed to force a redefinition of 'mIlk' that will threaten public health, as new proposals in the US threaten to do. More >>
Federated Farmers Deal Opens Way For GMOs In Hauraki Gulf
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 9:52 am | GE Free NZ
Deal With Federated Farmers Opens Way For GMOs In Hauraki Gulf Marine Park An agreement has been struck between Auckland Council and Federated Farmers to remove a statement prohibiting GMOs in the Hauraki Gulf Islands despite strong public opposition. Counsel ... More >>
Approval of 2-4-D Food Crops Based on Flawed Science
Sunday, 17 February 2013, 7:53 pm | GE Free NZ
Information received under the Official Information Act by GE-Free NZ shows the MPI and FSANZ are ignoring the toxicity risks of GE soybean 'A1073', by refusing to consider the combined effect of 3 chemicals and multiple novel genes in the food. More >>
Unelected Officers Hold Undue Sway Over Auckland Council
Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 11:03 am | GE Free NZ
Unelected Officers Hold Undue Sway Over Auckland Council Senior officers at Auckland Council have undue sway on information and processes that weakens local democracy and impacts the access councillors have to key documents. More >>
Auckland Council Vote is Vital Test for Local Democracy
Sunday, 10 February 2013, 7:35 pm | GE Free NZ
Auckland Council is facing the ulitimate test for local democracy as a 'supercity' when the Plans Committee meet on 12th February to consider the draft Unitary Plan. More >>
Northern Councils Address GM Risks
Wednesday, 6 February 2013, 6:43 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free Northland welcomes the recommendations of the Inter Council Working Party on GMOs, publicly released yesterday on behalf of its member councils from south Auckland to Cape Reinga. The ICWP on GMOs has produced draft planning provisions, ... More >>
Councils Must Learn Lessons of Leaky Buildings
Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 9:11 am | GE Free NZ
GE-Free NZ in food and environment welcomes the legal opinion and recommendations of an inter-council working party that has found local and regional authorities have a duty of care to protect their environment and communities from uninsurable long ... More >>
