FSA under fire for ‘misleading’ post-Brexit precision breeding proposals
GM Freeze’s complaint to the Food Standards Agency on the timing of the ‘precision bred’ organism consultation is highlighted by The Grocer.
GM Freeze in the news
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Gene editing wars: Experts warn FSA is misleading public
GM Freeze’s Leonie Nimmo quoted in Feed Navigator on the “chilling impact” of the timing of key GM consultation.
Who regulates the regulators? Caroline Lucas MP responds to question from GM Freeze
At the Soil Association’s 2023 Peter Melcett memorial lecture, GM Freeze’s Leonie Nimmo asked Green MP Caroline Lucas what transparency there is of lobbying in a post-Brexit UK regulatory system. The response? It’s a massively important gap in our overall governance.
The full video of the event ‘Re-imagining politics in an age of environmental breakdown’ is available here.
GM Freeze Director Leonie Nimmo on Farming Today responding to a Royal Society report calling for deregulation
Farming Today, BBC Radio 4, 24 October 2023 (timecode 8:30).
A clip of the interview, where Leonie explains the precautionary principle, was also used on the Today programme.
Today, BBC Radio 4, 24 October 2023 (timecode 55:33).
GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill comments on GM purple tomatoes (no link available)
Look East, BBC One (east of England), 28 July 2023 – no link available
Norwich scientists hope purple tomato will soon be sold in UK
BBC News (Norfolk), 29 July 2023
Can lessons from the passage of the Genetic Technology Act help us to raise a louder collective voice?
GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill writing for the Civil Society Alliance, 3 July 2023
GM Freeze Director explains concerns about changes to GM regulations
Farming Today, 6 June 2023 (available until 5 June)
European organics ponder gene-editing coexistence
Manitoba Co-operator, 2 June 2023
Gene edited crops become legal with no requirement to share location
Wicked Leeks, 26 April, 2023
New law gives GMOs free rein but food traders can help defend the right to choose
Better Food Traders – guest blog by GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill, March 2023
New GMOs will evade scrutiny as controversial bill passes
Sustain – guest blog written by GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill, 6 March 2023.
GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill discusses new Genetic Technology Bill
Farming Today, BBC Radio 4, 24 March 2023 (from the start of the programme, available until 22 April)
Approach gene edited crops claims “with cynicism”
Farmers Guardian, 11 January 2023
Report calls for end of “costly” genetic modification prohibition
Engineering & Technology, 23 December 2022
