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Minister Urged To Intervene As Consumers Lose Out With Irradiated Food Approval
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 5:38 am | GE Free NZ
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) has put industry profit before peoples health in its recommendation to approve irradiation of all types of fruit and vegetables between quarantine zones in Australia and New Zealand. Consumers are ... More >>
Ministry Wrong To See Future In GE Cigarettes
Friday, 18 June 2021, 8:30 am | GE Free NZ
There is concern that The Ministry of Health has been hoodwinked into promoting Genetic Engineering of tobacco as a credible option towards a Smoke Free Aotearoa. Submissions on the Smoke Free 2025 consultation document have closed, and it is positive ... More >>
Commission Report Loses Sight Of Sustainable Agriculture
Friday, 11 June 2021, 2:28 pm | GE Free NZ
The Climate Change Commission's report, Inaia tonu nei, has addressed the need to make radical changes in transport, electricity and waste minimisation to prevent serious climate problems for the future. [1] However the report fails to consider ... More >>
NZ Scientists Warned About Danger Of GE Viruses And Microbes
Saturday, 15 May 2021, 1:30 pm | GE Free NZ
New Zealand scientists interviewed on Newshub [1] calling for loosening regulatory controls on Genetic Engineering must heed warnings from overseas, and international standards of regulation need to be strengthened against the risks of genetically ... More >>
New Zealand Food Safety Minister Silenced In TransTasman GE Forum
Monday, 12 April 2021, 4:14 pm | GE Free NZ
New Zealand’s Ministerial engagement in the Trans Tasman GE Food Standards approval process has been silenced. The Conran review of the Council of Australian Governments COAG fora has recommended the dismantling of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand ... More >>
Silent Spring 2.0? - Gene-Silencing Pesticides Could Devastate Non-Target Species
Friday, 26 March 2021, 1:52 pm | GE Free NZ
New RNAi 'gene silencing' pesticides are being developed by Agro-biotec companies to kill insects by “switching off” their essential survival genes. [1] This use of genome technology has the potential to devastate non-target species, such as honeybees ... More >>
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 >>
