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March 17th: 'D-Day' For Deregulation Of Genetic Engineering
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 10:46 am | GE Free NZ
Consultation on global proposals to deregulate Gene Editing will end on March 17th, with the public and food producers largely in the dark about the major implications. The coincidence in date for proposals in Australia and the UK is a 'D-Day' for food ... More >>
March 17th: 'D-Day' For Deregulation Of Genetic Engineering
Sunday, 14 March 2021, 5:39 pm | GE Free NZ
Consultation on global proposals to deregulate Gene Editing will end on March 17th, with the public and food producers largely in the dark about the major implications. The coincidence in date for proposals in Australia and the UK is a 'D-Day' for food ... More >>
Organic Products Bill A Major Boost For Exporters
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 2:58 pm | GE Free NZ
Legislation regulating New Zealand's organic sector is about to pass through its final stages in Parliament and will be a major boost for exporters meeting the global demand for safe, 'clean', GE-free organic products. The Organic Products Bill helps ... More >>
NZ And EU Reject Gene Edited Organisms; Government Urged To Ensure Strong GE Regulation
Sunday, 31 January 2021, 4:23 pm | GE Free NZ
New Zealanders and Europeans have overwhelmingly rejected the genetically engineered new biotechnology (NBT) of gene editing and gene drives, a form of genetic engineering. In 2019 Dr. Maui Hudson, Waikato University, [1] released a report and survey of ... More >>
Shopper Warning As Approval Given For Pesticide Corn
Monday, 14 December 2020, 12:08 pm | GE Free NZ
Shoppers must start taking extra care when selecting the type of food they are eating, especially now that GE Corn with multi-pesticide resistance has been given approval by food safety regulators. The Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) Ministerial ... More >>
Petition For The Regulation Of Gene Edited Foods.
Monday, 30 November 2020, 10:36 am | GE Free NZ
The Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) Authority, a trans-Tasman body set up to assess genetically engineered food products for safety before allowing them into the food chains of Australia or New Zealand, is undergoing a review. A ... More >>
Level Of Animal Suffering 'Unacceptable' In AgResearch GE Experiments
Monday, 16 November 2020, 5:57 am | GE Free NZ
AgResearch's Ruakura genetically modified (GM) Animal Facility causes an unacceptable level of animal suffering and entails an unacceptable level of monetary cost and staff loss. The AgResearch Annual report, 2020, on GM animals confirms that genetic ... More >>
Gene Editing Forum: Stacked Attack On GM Regulation
Monday, 19 October 2020, 7:56 am | GE Free NZ
The AgScience Canterbury forum on Gene editing is being held in Lincoln on the 21 October [1] under the premise that there is ‘urgent need for wide and well-informed discussion and debate about gene editing’, yet the programme is stacked with embedded ... More >>
Scientists Raise Safety Concerns For Glyphosate-Resistant GE Foods
Saturday, 5 September 2020, 5:16 pm | GE Free NZ
Scientists have found that spraying with glyphosate-based herbicide triggers unintended effects even in genetically modified soybean varieties resistant to this type of pesticide. The researchers, from GenØk–Centre for Biosafety in Norway and the ... More >>
New Zealand Needs Its Own Food Safety Standards Authority
Monday, 31 August 2020, 8:00 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand needs to establish its own Food Standards Authority. The call has been prompted over the lack of notification to engage New Zealand consumers and food producers in a review of Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) Act. [1] FSANZ is a trans-Tasman ... More >>
Protection From GE For Northland Growers And Exporters Welcomed
Friday, 14 August 2020, 5:31 am | GE Free NZ
The Environment Court has upheld the appeal by the Whangarei District and Far North District Councils and others on the management of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the coastal Marine Area (CMA) in Northland. [1] The Environmental Court ... More >>
Safety Regulations For GE Under Threat
Monday, 3 August 2020, 2:07 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ has just received information under the OIA on the EPA-approved GE clinical trial of a vaccine for liver cancer. Pexa Vec (Pexastimogene Devacirepvec) a live genetically engineered small pox (vaccinia) virus failed to reach its clinical endpoints ... More >>
Call For Politicians To Keep Regulation On Gene Editing
Monday, 20 July 2020, 11:34 am | GE Free NZ
Politicians from all parties are being asked to ensure there are strict regulations on Genetically Engineered Organisms (GE/GMO), including Gene Editing. There is media hype and exaggeration of the accuracy and safety of Gene Editing (GE) promoted by ... More >>
GE Corn Resistant To Twelve Pesticides A Poisonous Cocktail
Tuesday, 14 April 2020, 4:36 pm | GE Free NZ
A variety of genetically engineered (GE) corn developed to survive spraying with up to twelve different pesticides risks exposing consumers in New Zealand or Australia to increased levels of toxic chemicals. Bayer Crop Science has applied to Food Standards ... More >>
Application for GMO ‘Imitation Blood’ Raises Concerns
Monday, 20 January 2020, 8:26 am | GE Free NZ
Foods Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has received an application seeking approval for the GE Imitation blood ingredient used in the Impossible Burger to enter the food chain.[1] More >>
NZ Should Emulate South Australia's GE Moratorium
Monday, 16 December 2019, 8:21 am | GE Free NZ
15/12/2019 New Zealand should protect our global export reputation by following the example of South Australia's moratorium on release of genetically engineered (GE) organisms. [1] More >>
Do GE developers really know what they are doing?
Monday, 18 November 2019, 9:43 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand consumers will be left in the dark about foods grown in Australia that have been created using gene editing techniques. On the 13 November the Australian Senator Rice put up a motion to disallow, or overturn, the recently passed Gene Technology ... More >>
Are Experimental GE Factory Farm Animals Vivisection?
Monday, 14 October 2019, 8:01 am | GE Free NZ
AgResearch annual report (2019) on genetically engineered (GE) animal trials reinforce the findings of Friends of the Earth ‘Genetically Engineered Animals: From Lab to Factory Farm’ report [1]. The reports detail that all GE techniques have the ... More >>
Technology Fails and Creates Superhybrid Mosquitoes
Friday, 20 September 2019, 4:37 pm | GE Free NZ
The unexpected disastrous failure of GE Pest Extinction technology has occurred. A new “super” hybrid genetically engineered (GE) mosquito has been created, and no one knows what the implications and dangers are. These Super GE mosquitos cannot ... More >>
Community Support for Councils' appeal on GMO's
Thursday, 12 September 2019, 11:17 am | GE Free NZ
The Far North District Council (FNDC) and the Whangarei District Council (WDC) have lodged a joint appeal against the Northland Regional Council’s (NRC) omission of precautionary rules in its plan. [1] More >>
