News releases and comments from GM Freeze are listed below.
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Immediate release (16 Dec 2008)
UK food industry not responding sufficiently to consumers concerns about cloned farm animals and product from cloned products and their offspring in the food chain. A survey released by GM Freeze today shows that the UK food industry is not …
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Immediate release (27 Nov 2008)
Claims made by BBC 2’s Horizon programme [1] that genetic modification of Ugandan cooking bananas would prevent crop losses from a fungal disease are not correct, say GM Freeze, because Ugandan researchers have told the media that they are failing. …
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Immediate release (24 Sep 2008)
Professor David Baulcombe Chair, Working Group The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG 24 September 2008 Dear Prof. Baulcombe, re: Biological approaches to enhance food crop production An Open Letter We are writing to express our serious …
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Immediate release (12 Sep 2008)
GM Freeze is calling for a thorough investigation into how oilseed rape seeds planted in three locations in Scotland in seed trials became contaminated with unauthorized GM traits, as well as for improvements to seed import controls. The incident was …
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Immediate release (14 Aug 2008)
GM Freeze has welcomed Prince Charles’s comments on the risks of widespread introduction of GM crops to the environment. The group supports his view that large scale production of GM crops will not be sustainable and will lead to the …
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Immediate release (28 Jul 2008)
Calls for the location of test sites for GM crops to be made secret should be rejected. The call was made by scientists involved in testing GM potatoes in the UK at a press conference today. GM Freeze want full …
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Immediate release (7 Jul 2008)
GM Freeze criticised the Cabinet Office’s report [1] on food in the 21st century as “seriously lacking in- depth analysis on the need for GM crops and their impacts on people and the planet”, saying it “fails to show any …
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Immediate release (19 Jun 2008)
Prime Minster Gordon Brown’s and Environment Minister Phil Woolas’ calls for a re-think on GM crops in the UK to increase yields have been described by GM Freeze as “short on facts and history”. The group point out that four …
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Immediate release (17 Jun 2008)
Non-GM crops bred using traditional plant breeding methods still provide most of the food and animal feed in the world, covering more than 97% of agricultural land [1] compared with only 2.4% growing GM crops. The new analysis [2] was …
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Immediate release (9 May 2008)
GM Freeze described today’s announcement by Defra to approve an application to trial GM potatoes near Tadcaster in North Yorkshire a by the University of Leeds as “very unwise and unnecessary”. The decision comes two months after a public consultation …
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Immediate release (25 Apr 2008)
GM Freeze has warmly welcomed Debenham’s decision to ban GM food ingredients from its restaurants and cafes announced today. The Freeze has been calling upon all companies to include products, such meat, milk, cheese, eggs and fish, grown using GM …
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Immediate release (15 Apr 2008)
GM Freeze welcomes the findings of the International Assessment on Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) and calls upon Government, industry and scientists to respond by changing their approach to research and development in the global South. The IAASTD …
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Immediate release (2 Apr 2008)
GM Freeze has urged the partners in the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) not to be diverted by the exaggerated claims made about genetically modified (GM) crops by their proponents. The call comes ahead of …
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Immediate release (27 Mar 2008)
Rice products imported from China contaminated with the unapproved and illegal GM trait Bt63 have been confirmed as “unsafe” by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). In a letter to food regulators and the food industry sent on 26 March, the …
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Immediate release (8 Mar 2008)
The absence of any safety data on an illegal GM rice from China currently in the UK food chain means that businesses and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) should work quickly to ensure that no contaminated products are left on …
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Immediate release (14 Feb 2008)
GM Freeze has described the latest biotech industry-funded assessment [1] of the importance of GM crops around the world as a “gross exaggeration”. Industry data puts the area under GM crops at 114 million hectares in 2007, which represent just …
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Immediate release (25 Jan 2008)
GM Freeze has joined calls by the ETC group [1] for a moratorium on developments in synthetic biology after it was announced in the journal Science [2] that a team in the USA had taken a step towards the chemical …
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Immediate release (18 Jan 2008)
GM Freeze [1] has urged the partners in the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) to press on and publish their report [2] despite the decision by the biotechnology industry [3] to withdraw from the process. …
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