News releases and comments from GM Freeze are listed below.
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Immediate release (7 Feb 2006)
The US, supported by Argentina and Canada, lodged a complaint against Europe’s precautionary approach to GM in May 2003 at the World Trade Organisation. The case accuses Europe of undue delay in approving new GM products and of unscientific bans …
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Immediate release (2 Feb 2006)
An alliance of leading environment and development organisations has condemned Australia, Canada and New Zealand for attempting to open the door to Terminator technology, a form of genetic-modification that would make seeds sterile and threaten the livelihoods of small-scale farmers. …
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Embargoed (22 Jan 2006)
Embargoed until 00:00 (midnight) 22 January 2006 Download the report and summary here. GM Freeze is calling for improved leadership from the FSA and more money for port health and local authorities to ensure that UK consumers and farmers can …
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Immediate release (22 Dec 2005)
Plans announced yesterday by the European Commission to allow organic food to be contaminated up 0.9% GM have been condemned by GM Freeze as the “thin edge of a wedge”. The EC’s draft regulations [1] states that, “Products containing GMOs …
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Immediate release (7 Dec 2005)
DFID continues to assert the potential of biotechnology in its agricultural strategy launched today [1], in spite of growing concerns in southern countries about GM crops. China and South Africa have both recently slowed the introduction of GM crops in …
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Immediate release (25 Oct 2005)
News released by Greenpeace International (see Press Release below) that patents for Terminator Technology have been granted in Europe and Canada have been condemned by GM Freeze. GM Freeze wants the UK Government to take a strong stance against the …
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Immediate release (30 Sep 2005)
New research [1] has found that GM oilseed rape could contaminate non-GM crops 15 years after it was grown – longer than previously thought. This represent a major set back to plans to commercialise the crop and EU plans to …
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Immediate release (26 Aug 2005)
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling on the Brazilian soya industry to “resist further growth of GM planting” because “it will be enormously difficult to maintain trust in the food chain should Brazil’s supply of non-GM soybean dry up.” …
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Immediate release (10 Aug 2005)
The Five Year Freeze (FYF), the national campaign calling for a moratorium on GM commercialisation, is changing its name. From August 10th it will be known as GM Freeze. The change is to reflect a continuing need to highlight the …
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Immediate release (21 Mar 2005)
As European Commissioners gather to debate the future of Genetically Modified (GM) crops and food tomorrow (22 March), environment and consumer representatives have exposed an EC Recommendation, guiding member states on GM crops, as legally and fundamentally flawed. The NGOs …
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Immediate release (21 Mar 2005)
The results of the farm scale evaluations of GM winter oilseed rape, published today, should not be used to justify the commercial go ahead for this controversial crop say the Freeze Campaign. The results show less dramatic harm to wildlife …
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Immediate release (21 Mar 2005)
On the 21st of March, the Government will publish the results of its field scale trials of genetically modified (GM) winter oilseed rape. These are the final results from the Government’s Farm Scale Evaluations (FSE) of genetically modified (GM) herbicide …
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Immediate release (15 Mar 2005)
Today, in advance of the announcement of the final results of the Farm-scale Evaluations (FSE) of GM winter oilseed rape next Monday (21st March 2005), GeneWatch UK, the GM Freeze and Friends of the Earth, jointly published two key documents: …
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Immediate release (8 Feb 2005)
The GM Freeze have urged Environment Minister Elliott Morley to oppose moves by the Canadian Government to force through a proposal to legalise the use of terminator genes at a UN meeting in Bangkok this week. Documents released at the …
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Immediate release (19 Jan 2005)
New research on GM sugar beet published tomorrow (1) shows that different crop management will leave the UK’s farmland wildlife short of food at some stage in the year. The research carried out by the UK’s only sugar beet research …
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Immediate release (16 Dec 2004)
The GM Freeze warmly welcomed the news that the two remaining applications to place GM seeds on the UK’s “national seed list” were withdrawn by Bayer CropScience on 9th November. There are now currently no GM varieties awaiting seed listing …
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