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GE Animal Court Papers Filed
Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 8:58 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ (in food and environment) has filed papers in the High Court against ERMA's decision approving development of GE cows, sheep and goats. The 20-year approval for AgResearch's application (200223) was given just weeks before the ERMA ... More >>
ERMA To Cancel GE Animal Approvals
Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 10:45 am | GE Free NZ
ERMA will have to cancel its approval for 20 years of GE experimentation with cows sheep and goats, if the public is to believe the scientifiic arguments for rejecting the latest GE animal applications. More >>
Deformed GE Animals Unacceptable To New Zealanders
Sunday, 2 May 2010, 10:35 am | GE Free NZ
Revelations about the deformities occurring in GE animals at AgResearch's Ruakura site will shock most New Zealanders, and will damage the country's reputation overseas. More >>
GE Animals Case To Go To The Supreme Court
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 3:36 pm | GE Free NZ
The Supreme Court is to consider whether there are grounds to be heard in the case brought by GE-Free NZ concerning four applications by AgResearch seeking indefinite and wideranging use of GE animals in New Zealand. More >>
GE Animals Case To Go To The Supreme Court
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 10:16 am | GE Free NZ
The Supreme Court is to consider the case brought by GE-Free NZ concerning four applications by AgResearch seeking indefinite and wideranging use of GE animals in New Zealand. More >>
Deadly GE mutation leaves NZ Dangerously Exposed
Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 9:21 am | GE Free NZ
ERMA has opened up New Zealand to new disease, if overseas examples of transgenic viral recombination are replicated here. More >>
Resignation of ERMA Chief Still Leaves Conflict
Friday, 16 April 2010, 9:51 am | GE Free NZ
The resignation of the Chairman of ERMA on the eve of approving Genetically Engineered cows, sheep and goats, still leaves conflicts of interests and will do nothing to restore public confidence in the organisation. More >>
Approval for GE Animals warrants court action
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 1:55 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ is appalled at the Environmental Risk Management Authority’s (ERMA) decision to give an approval for genetic engineering of sheep, cows and goats and believes the decision is illegal. More >>
GE Animal Responsibility Spread To Rate Payers
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 11:24 am | GE Free NZ
Local and Regional Authorities will be scrambling to protect ratepayers from costs of clean-up and contamination if ERMA approves four applications based on its latest 'Evaluation and Review' report, due out in the next few weeks. More >>
Fonterra In Firing Line From GM Milk
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 9:59 am | GE Free NZ
Plans by AgResearch to produce Genetically Modified milk for overseas companies GTC and Pharming, put Fonterra in the firing line of a consumer backlash. More >>
NZ Scientists Warn Against GM Plans
Monday, 12 April 2010, 9:48 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand scientists are warning that plans for Genetically Modified animals outside full containment represent an ‘unmanageable and undefined’ risk to exports, tourism, and potentially the well-being of New Zealanders. More >>
NZ Scientists Warn Against GM Plans
Monday, 12 April 2010, 9:38 am | GE Free NZ
NZ Scientists Warn Against GM Plans New Zealand scientists are warning that plans for Genetically Modified animals outside full containment represent an ‘unmanageable and undefined’ risk to exports, tourism, and potentially the well-being of New ... More >>
Decision on GE Animals Must Go To Supreme Court
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 10:16 am | GE Free NZ
A decision upholding AgResearch’s appeal against a High Court ruling could destroy the foundations of New Zealand’s economy by opening the floodgates for GE animals in New Zealand. The prospect of ERMA approvals for GE animals “indefinitely and ... More >>
Approval of GM Cows Pushes Rules To Breaking Point
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 10:35 am | GE Free NZ
Approval for GM Cows Pushes Rules To Breaking Point. 17 March 2010 The Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) has again stretched its statutory responsibility by approving a further two and a half years of experiments on GM cows. ERMA quietly ... More >>
Migrants Warned Over Foodtown’s GM Maize
Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 11:06 am | GE Free NZ
Migrants from South Africa are being warned to be alert to the latest Genetically Modified food to be found on supermarket shelves. More >>
Animal Bio-Reactors: An Unacceptable Cost to New Z
Friday, 5 February 2010, 1:27 pm | GE Free NZ
Strong public opposition to AgResearch's plans to commercialise GE animals as chemical bio-reactors has prompted over 1500 submissions to ERMA. More >>
GE Animals Case Heads Back To Court
Monday, 25 January 2010, 11:34 am | GE Free NZ
AgResearch and GE Free NZ in food and environment are set to go to the Court of Appeal in Wellington on Tuesday 26th January in Court Room 1. GE Free NZ took High Court action after AgResearch made four applications seeking to develop, import and go ... More >>
UK Shops Won't Take NZ animal-product Fed GM Grass
Friday, 15 January 2010, 9:37 am | GE Free NZ
Major supermarkets overseas, including British chains Marks and Spencer’s and Sainsbury’s, would shun New Zealand products made using Genetically Modified grass being developed by AgResearch. AgResearch’s development of GM grass puts New Zealand food exporters ... More >>
Food Authorities Playing Russian Roulette
Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 9:45 am | GE Free NZ
The refusal of the trans-Tasman Food Standards Australia New Zealand Authority (FSANZ) to reassess the risks of three GE corn varieties found to cause harm is the result of bias and personal agendas rather than sound science. Following publication of ... More >>
Three Variants of Toxic Maize Could Be In NZ
Monday, 21 December 2009, 10:49 am | GE Free NZ
All three of the GM maize variants recently discovered to be toxic in long-term tests have been approved for sale by authorities in New Zealand and Australia. The three types of maize: MON810, MON863 and NK603, are all listed as "approved" in the official ... More >>
