News releases and comments from GM Freeze are listed below.
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Immediate release (3 Jun 2013)
An alliance of 27 organisations, including the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, Neal’s Yard Remedies, the Real Bread Campaign and War on Want, today issued a statement challenging Rothamsted Research, the Government and funding bodies to be more open …
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Immediate release (30 May 2013)
US regulators announced yesterday that unauthorised GM Roundup Ready (RR) wheat was found growing on a farm in Oregon. [1] The incident coincides with the second year of GM wheat trials at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire. It reinforces GM Freeze’s …
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Immediate release (11 Apr 2013)
GM Freeze today challenged assertions made by Tesco in regard to the supply of non-GM soya for poultry feed. The organisation says certain statements are inaccurate and will mislead customers. [1] Three contentious claims are: 1) There simply isn’t enough …
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Immediate release (5 Apr 2013)
The announcement this week that Italy intends to ban the cultivation of Monsanto’s MON810 [1] GM maize, following a report by the Italian Health Ministry, represents a significant development in the long-term prospects for GM crops in the European Union …
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Immediate release (11 Mar 2013)
GM Freeze and the New York based Bioscience Resource Project today published a Q&A of key issues regarding the recent revelation that the majority of GM crops contain sequences encoding for the viral Gene VI, which has not been fully …
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Immediate release (20 Feb 2013)
GM Freeze described the annual report of the status of GM crops around the world as “rose-tinted” and said it fails to describe the growing opposition and problems with GM crops. GM crops still only occupy a tiny percentage of …
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Immediate release (11 Feb 2013)
Tomorrow EU Member States will discuss the Commission’s proposal to amend the Honey Directive in what is widely believed to be an attempt to circumvent the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and hide the presence of GM pollen from consumers. …
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Immediate release (30 Jan 2013)
BASF announced yesterday it is abandoning efforts to gain EU authorisation for three GM potatoes after over a decade of investment and research. The company is also dropping research into GM “nutritionally enhanced corn” in the US, which will trigger …
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Immediate release (22 Jan 2013)
A postal survey sent to English farmers by the Centre for Agricultural Strategy at Reading University [1] gives inaccurate and misleading information about coexistence of GM and conventional oilseed rape and should be abandoned, GM Freeze said today. GM Freeze …
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Immediate release (21 Jan 2013)
Biotech industry claims, and regulator reassurances, that GM technology is predictable and safe have been shaken by the discovery of viral gene sequence in many GM crops. Two thirds of GM crops approved in the US contain the hitherto unidentified …
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Immediate release (1 Jan 2013)
A report from the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) has highlighted how the genetic potential of modern wheat and oilseed rape varieties is being held back by poor soil conditions, agronomy and weather. [1] GM Freeze welcomes this informed and …
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Immediate release (10 Dec 2012)
Defra Secretary of State Owen Paterson’s misguided assumption that GM has “real environmental benefits” is both factually inaccurate and ignores the UK Government’s own data from field trials that showed GM crops harm wildlife. [1] In comments reported today Mr …
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Immediate release (29 Nov 2012)
GM Freeze is warning that governments and scientists should not rely too heavily on wheat genetics to improve food security following the announcement that scientists have taken another step toward sequencing the wheat genome. [1] Huge investments for genetically modifying …
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Immediate release (8 Nov 2012)
The biotech industry may have bitten off more than it can chew by spending big to defeat yesterday’s California vote on mandatory GM labels at a time when initiatives in many other states are gearing up on similar votes in …
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Immediate release (25 Oct 2012)
GeneWatch UK and GM Freeze today released documents obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information request, which reveal that the GM companies Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and BASF are setting the agenda for UK agricultural research with a view …
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Immediate release (23 Oct 2012)
The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) is backing calls for more research into the long-term combined effects of GMOs and pesticides in food. [1] ANSES is the first official body to suggest that the …
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Immediate release (16 Oct 2012)
GM nitrogen fixing cereals are a mirage says a new publication from GM Freeze. The complex genetics involved are proving an obstacle to success, and even if it does work the technology is likely to result in lower yields. [1] …
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Immediate release (5 Oct 2012)
The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) today responded to the criticism levelled at the recent research paper reporting the results of the long-term feeding of GM maize to rats. [1] The statement points out that …
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Immediate release (3 Oct 2012)
The announcement of the genetic modification and cloning of a dairy cow in New Zealand [1] raises serious doubts about the safety and efficacy of the technology employed for the experiments and ignores key ethical questions about animal welfare and …
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Immediate release (19 Sep 2012)
A new independent lifetime study has found that a diet of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready maize increases the rates of death and tumours in laboratory rats. [1] The CRIIGEN research team [2] used Monsanto’s NK603 Roundup tolerant maize to feed rats …
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