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Week of October 10th - October 16th
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Posted on October 11, 1999
Safety and Farm Health Journal, Issue #2 -- October 1999,
Biotechnology - Tomorrow's Agricultural Safety and Health Issue?
Scientific Paper Outlining the Potential Health Implications of Genetically Modified
Foods (pdf 68K)– From the United Kingdom’s National Department of
Health
Basic Research Subcommittee Hearings, Plant Genome Science:
From the Lab to the Field to the Market, Part II,
U.S. House of Representatives, October 5, 1999
Consumers Union testimony before the Committee on
Agriculture, U.S. Senate hearing on biotechnology, October
7, 1999
U.S. Commerce Department Official Says Biotech Food Proven
Safe, Reuters, October 7, 1999
Greenpeace Business Conference 1999, with Robert Shapiro
and Peter Melchott
The Concept of Substantial Equivalence in the Safety Assessment of
Novel Foods, OECD, response to Nature article
'Beyond Substantial Equivalence' October 6, 1999
Posted on October 12, 1999
U.S. May Be Next to Unveil GMO Labeling Scheme, Feedstuffs,
October 4, 1999
Quaker Betrays Public Trust with Gene-Altered Corn,
Greenpeace Press Release, October 7, 1999
Friend or Foe?, New Scientist, October 9, 1999
How Monsanto's mind was changed, Guardian (London),
October 9, 1999
Hain Food's New Labeling May Prompt U.S. Shoppers to Demand
'Biotech-Free', WSJ, October 7, 1999
Posted on October 13, 1999
Group To Oppose Genetically Altered Foods In U.S., Wall
Street Journal, October 12, 1999
EU Plans One Percent 'GMO-Free'
Threshold, Reuters, October 12, 1999
Department of the Environment and Local Government, Ireland,
Press Release -- Government approves precautionary environmental
policy on GMOs, October 9, 1999
Occurrence of common milkweed in cropland and adjacent
areas of Iowa (abstract)
GM Free Food Chain Hits Problems in US, posted by
Natural Law Party Wessex, October 7, 1999
Posted on October 15, 1999
President Clinton on the upcoming WTO meeting in Seattle
and GMOs -- excerpts
Thais Say US Shipped
Genetically Altered Wheat, Dow Jones Newswire, October 15,
1999
Ten reasons why biotechnology will not ensure food security, protect the
environment and reduce poverty in the developing world,
Miguel Altieri and Peter Rosset (pdf 23K)
What Biotech Food Issue?,
Gallup News Service, October 5, 1999
Farmers' Declaration on Genetic Engineering in
Agriculture, National Family Farm Coalition, October, 1999
Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes
expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat
small intestine, Lancet, October 16, 1999< >
- Differential Binding of the Insecticidal Lectin GNA to
Human Blood Cells, The Lancet, October 16, 1999
Genetically
Modified Potatoes, The Lancet, October
16, 1999
Genetically modified foods: "Absurd
Concern or Welcome Dialogue?",
The Lancet, October 16, 1999
- Adequacy of Methods for Testing the Safety of Genetically
Modified Foods, The Lancet, October 16, 1999
- A disputed study suggests possible harm from
genetically altered food, The New York Times/Washington Post/Dow Jones/AP/Reuters
October 15, 1999
Posted on October 16, 1999
EPA looking to industry to guide agency
decisions on ecological safety of Bt corn,
Pesticide and Toxic Chemical News, September 30, 1999
Australia, NZ Could Set Pace for GM Food Labeling,
Reuters, October 13, 1999
Industrial Biotechnology Will
Eclipse GMO Foods, Press Release, October 14, 1999
Forestry Biotechnology Joint Venture Announced,
Forest Action Network, October 1999
Senator Kit Bond (R-MO)Commends Plant Biotechnologists, Comments
delivered to an ASPP Reception, September 23, 1999
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