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Week of April 15th - April 21st

April 15/April 16/April 17/April 18/April 19/April 20/April 21




Posted on April 20, 2001

Chinese question safety of GM food, News Release, China Economic Information Centre (Xinhua) via NewsEdge Corporation and soyatech.com

Plans Tight Biotech Food Controls: Labeling Rules Carry Risk of Trade Dispute With U.S., Washington Post Foreign Service, April 11, 2001

Bt Refuges Maintain Effective Pest Control, AgWeb News, April 10. 2001

Crop companies flouted GM controls, says government minister, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 9, 2001

Biotech Bears Fruit for Farmers, but What About Consumers?, The Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2001

Canada to Sign International Biosafety Protocol, News Release Environment News Service, April 9, 2001

Bayer interested in buying whole of Aventis CropSciences, News Release, AFX News Limited, April 6, 2001

Nebraska organic farmer bears costs of GM testing, Farm News from Cropchoice.com, April 11, 2001

Precaution: Who Decides? Why Democratic Methods of Decision-Making are Critical to Implementing the Precautionary Principle, By Joel Tickner and Lee Ketelsen, Loka Alert 8:3, April 20, 2001

ISIS in US National Academy of Science,Taking Science Seriously in the GM Debate, Delvered by Mae-Wan Ho to the Workshop on Agriculture and the Developing World of the US National Academies Standing Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health, and the Environment, Washington DC, 16 April 2001




Posted on April 16, 2001

When Transgenes Wander, Should We Worry?, by Norman C. Ellstrand, Professor of Genetics,University of California, Riverside, California; Plant Physiol. 2001; EDITOR'S CHOICE April 2001, Vol. 125, pp. 1543-1545

Increased Killing of Bacillus subtilis on the Hair Roots of Transgenic T4 Lysozyme-Producing Potatoes, ABSTRACT, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2000, p. 1862-1865, Vol. 66, No. 5

Hope Seen in Tobacco That Heals; Biotech Gamble Attracts Virginia's Anxious Farmers, Washington Post, April 16, 2001