Immediate release (1 Oct 2024)
GM Freeze has today emailed the Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs Daniel Zeichner urging him to act with caution in relation to new forms of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Laws have been announced that look set to remove …
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Immediate release (15 Dec 2023)
GM Freeze has today written to the UK’s leading supermarkets calling on them to respond to the current Food Standards Agency (FSA) consultation on ‘precision bred’ organisms in order to defend their customers’ wishes. The FSA proposes that food and …
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Immediate release (15 Nov 2023)
GM Freeze has today sent an open letter of complaint to the Food Standards Agency regarding the timing of its consultation on the post-Brexit regulation of ‘precision bred’ organisms (PBOs), claiming it will discriminate against consumer-focussed businesses. The consultation runs …
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Comment (25 Jul 2023)
Commenting on the suggestion, based on Farming Minister Mark Spencer’s evidence to an Environmental Audit Committee hearing, that genetically engineering cattle is a better way to reduce methane emissions than encouraging a reduction in meat consumption, GM Freeze Director Liz …
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Comment (25 May 2022)
Commenting on the the UK Government’s Genetic Technology Bill – and the news that Environment Minister George Eustice does not believe that genetically modified organisms created with newer GM techniques should be declared on food labels, GM Freeze Director Liz …
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Comment (23 May 2022)
Commenting on news that the John Innes Centre is growing GM tomatoes under new rules that allow experimental GMOs to be released without proper scrutiny, GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill said: The John Innes Centre has chosen to release experimental …
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Comment (20 May 2022)
Commenting on an article in The I, in which Environment Secretary George Eustice boasts that the Genetic Technology Bill will be passed into law this year and will bring unlabelled GMOs to supermarket shelves across the UK by 2023, GM …
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Comment (10 May 2022)
Responding to plans for a Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill, announced in today’s Queen’s Speech and detailed on page 61 of the Lobby Pack briefing notes, Liz O’Neill, Director of umbrella group GM Freeze said: All genetic technologies can – …
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Comment (29 Sep 2021)
Responding to the announcement that Environment Secretary George Eustice intends to push ahead with plans to remove new GM techniques (often referred to as gene editing) from the scope of GMO regulations, Liz O’Neill, Director of umbrella group GM Freeze …
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Comment (27 Aug 2021)
Commenting on news that the Government has given the go-ahead to an open field trial of GM “low acrylamide” wheat at Rothamsted Research, GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill said: It’s hard to understand the thinking that leads GM developers to …
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