Genetic Engineering
International Developments
SOUTH AMERICA
EUROPE
People's jury says 'yes but' to gene crops,
Wire Service: RTw (Reuters World Report),
June 22, 1998
France might face EU court action over gene crops, Gillian Handyside, Reuters, June 19, 1998
Gene Prince, As big business tightens its
grip on the food-chain, an unlikely opponent steps into the fray, by
George Monbiot, in the London Guardian, June 9, 1998
Monsanto GEF ad campaign
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Biotechnology company Monsanto Co. has launched a multimillion-dollar ad
campaign aimed at allaying European concerns about the safety of genetically
modified foods, Assoicated Press, June 7, 1998.
Prince of Wales speaks out on genetic foods, London Times, June 8, 1998
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Contradictory Rulings by the EPO have provoked new EU Legislation directed
at making transgenics patentable, by Breffni Baggot,
Intellectual Property Law, Manchester, CT.
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EU delays plans to end ban on gene-altered maize, Reuters World Report, April 15, 1998
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Monsanto's altered sugar beet is not sweet to Irish,
by Bill Lambrecht, for the Post-Dispatch, March 8, 1998
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New Tomato Keeps Men Healthy - With a Bit of Sauce on the Side by Steve Conner,
Science Correspondent, London Sunday Times, February 8, 1998.
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Duped Consumers Swallow Genetically Altered Food, London Sunday Times
February 8, 1998.
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Swiss to Import Modified Corn, Financial Times (London) January 7, 1998
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UK retailers to label genetically engineered foods, an article in
Financial Times
(London) November 20, 1997, by Allison Maitland
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HRH Prince Charles delivers the 1996 LADY EVE BALFOUR MEMORIAL
LECTURE
, September, 1996 on genetic engineering
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Europe
Rules Genetically Engineered Food Must be Labeled,
September 25, 1997
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Codex Role in the Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods
- European Parliament Excludes GMOs from Organic Agriculture
May 14, 1997
- New York Times article
"Genetic Soybeans From the U.S. Alarm Europeans" , November 7, 1996
- Europeans Concerned Over Exports of Roundup Ready Soybeans,
recent developments documented by the Pesticide Action Network
ASIA
Last Updated on 7/2/98
By Karen Lutz
Email: karen@hillnet.com