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Northland GE Report: Precautionary approach needed
Monday, 7 July 2003, 9:17 am | GE Free NZ
Northland Regional Council Chairman’s Report on GE identifies the need for a Precautionary approach More >>
Choice between moratorium or NZ economy
Saturday, 5 July 2003, 4:19 pm | GE Free NZ
The corn contamination discovered in Japan is a clear indication that the claimed safe regulation of GE commercial releases in New Zealand is an impossibility. The recent ERMA Review warns of the flawed oversight of field tests and the lack of coordination ... More >>
Audit vindicates lack of confidence in ERMA
Wednesday, 2 July 2003, 9:41 pm | GE Free NZ
Audit vindicates public's lack of confidence in ERMA's regulation of GE. An independent review of ERMA - the Environmental Risk Management Authority- has vindicated community concerns raised over recent years about the authority's ability to manage the risks ... More >>
Biotech lobby "don't look - don't find" strategy
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 9:44 am | GE Free NZ
Biotech lobby wants "don't look - don't find" strategy backed by ERMA so public and scientists are left in the dark. Responding to the challenge to present evidence that New Zealand's longest-running trial of GE sheep and other transgenic ... More >>
GE FreeNorthland applauds Kaipara GE decision
Monday, 30 June 2003, 10:16 am | GE Free NZ
Kaipara District Council signalled its strong opposition to genetic engineering this week, voting to limit the release of Genetically Engineered Organisms within the District. More >>
ERMA approval could cost the taxpayers millions
Friday, 27 June 2003, 8:54 am | GE Free NZ
If PPL goes bankrupt New Zealand could well find itself the new owners of the PPL facility. The clean up would cost the taxpayers millions. The Minister for the Environment stated yesterday "Someone will manage those sheep, be they the receiver, the ... More >>
BioEthics Cl & Bishops want more public scrutiny
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 9:26 am | GE Free NZ
The BioEthics Council and the NZ Catholic Bishops Conference today called on government to allow for more public scrutiny before GE conditional releases go ahead. More >>
Disposal of GE sheep presents massive bio-problem
Monday, 23 June 2003, 9:23 am | GE Free NZ
The termination of PPL's experimental flock of sheep with a human gene presents a massive biosecurity problem that New Zealand authorities may be ill-equipped to handle. More >>
There were NO clinical trials on GE food admission
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 1:35 pm | GE Free NZ
The health of New Zealanders and the world population is at stake as a result of the sale of untested GE foods by multinationals promoting GE crops. The industry has a poor record for reporting and preventing any negative impacts on health and ... More >>
NZ Laws to make GE companies liable for damage
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 5:51 pm | GE Free NZ
Demand for New Zealand Laws to make GE companies liable for damage to other crops More >>
Submissions must not be discarded by GE committee
Monday, 16 June 2003, 8:44 am | GE Free NZ
Public submissions due today to the select committee considering the New Organisms and Other Matters Bill must not be discarded if they are part of form-submissions according to an agreement made with the Clerk of the committee by GE Free NZ in food ... More >>
Supermarkets reject GE Foods
Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 12:16 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand supermarkets excluding GE ingredients in their house-brands should be taking a lead from their counterparts in Britain, who have told Prime Minister Blair that they will refuse to sell any GE foods. More >>
Community Support for High Court Challenge
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 2:29 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free (NZ) in food and environment fully support the MADGE legal case in the High Court challenging the approval of GE cows with a range of genes from other species. The MADGE case will help to clarify how the HSNO Act is to be applied in protecting ... More >>
Govt must enforce proper labeling of GE foods
Friday, 6 June 2003, 3:03 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ applauds the effort that Greenpeace made in finding GE contamination in Inghams chickens. It is felt the Food Safety Authority should reimburse Greenpeace for the tests that the FSA should have carried out. More >>
Scientists back Rural Women's stance on GE
Friday, 6 June 2003, 2:13 pm | GE Free NZ
Scientists and medical professionals concerned about the impact of GE release on New Zealand have come out in support of the stance adopted by Rural Women's for the moratorium on applications for GE release to be extended. More >>
Land Values threatened by GE release
Thursday, 5 June 2003, 4:19 pm | GE Free NZ
New Zealand farmers and the government are being urged to heed new warnings that land used for GE crops, and even homes situated near to GE farms, will lose value as a result of GE contamination. More >>
Open letter to Rolleston, Life Science Network
Thursday, 5 June 2003, 9:02 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free would like to have the scientific study from LSN that says No risk from HGT at Whakamaru. It is exactly this point that we are asking for assurance on. More >>
"People's Contract" needed GE Contaminates Wheat
Wednesday, 4 June 2003, 8:15 am | GE Free NZ
The Labour-lead government is being called on to promise New Zealanders that they will protect citizens' rights to grow, buy and eat GE-free food now and for future generations, under a " People's Contract". More >>
Report shows GE will not feed the world
Friday, 30 May 2003, 5:31 pm | GE Free NZ
A new report 'Going Against the Grain' released by Action Aid reveals that at best GM crops are irrelevant to poor farmers, at worst they threaten to push them deeper into debt. Making third world farmers more reliant on expensive seeds and chemicals, ... More >>
Industry must come clean on scientific evidence
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 3:19 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free New Zealand have sent requests to both the Life Sciences Network (LSN) and ERMA to supply evidence to prove there are 'vanishingly small' risks of Horizontal Gene Transfer ( HGT) in PPL's experiments with sheep with human genes being bred ... More >>
