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- Call for new biotech commission to halt spread of GM seeds
- 2000
- Advanta admits separation distances in UK far closer than Canada
- Advanta to pay up
- Britain's babies back baby food ban
- Buy it from farmers' markets
- Buy your festive feast from local farmers
- Cadbury's admits its chocolate contains lindane
- Call for new biotech commission to halt spread of GM seeds
- Children get raw deal from Government
- Euro MPs fail GM Test
- Farm scale trials must be called off
- First UK organic beer festival held in Birmingham
- FOE responds to Prince Philip's confidence about GM foods
- Food Standards Agency could do better
- GM farm scale trial is useless
- GM farm scale trials threaten UK honey
- GM farmers pull out of trials
- GM scientist deserves sack says Friends of the Earth
- GM trials are a farce
- Government gambling with countryside
- Government in chaos over GM seeds
- Government in shambles over GM mistake
- Government prepares to decide commercial approval for GM crops before trial ends
- Government proposes to trash GM trials
- Hormone disrupting chemicals found in baby food
- Iceland to stock organic food at non-organic prices
- Illegal GM ingredients found in supermarkets
- Lindane is banned - nearly
- More GM crops set for Wales
- MPs debate new law on GM liability
- New fears over impact of GM crops on birdlife
- Public wants pesticides banned from supermarket food
- Scientists slam GM research
- Supermarket Real Food sham
- Top insurer says no to GM pollution cover
- Wales can ban GM
- Welsh agriculture secretary bottles out of Assembly decision on GM
- Aventis criticised by Government barrister
- Baby Blair greeted with hamper of Real Food
- Biosafety Protocol Agreed
- Biotech giant clams up at GM Seed List Hearing
- Call for pesticide tax
- Church advisers say no to GM crop trials
- Diners still worry about GM food
- FOE slams Krebs over organic food
- GM contamination inevitable admits Meacher
- GM food scare hits US taco lovers
- GM seed fiasco means farmers start to dig up crops
- GM-free diet for Iceland livestock
- Government GM policy in tatters
- Government set to give go-ahead to commercial licensing
- Hold on the milk says top scientist
- Kiss of death for GM seed
- Pesticides level rise in fruit AND veg
- Promising green speech from Blair?
- Shock admission that GM crops are already growing in the UK
- Supermarkets back organic farming bill
Call for new biotech commission to halt spread of GM seeds5 June 2000
Friends of the Earth has called for the newly created Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Advisory Commission [AEBC], which will advise the Government on biotechnology, to back abandonment of GM farm scale trials, and halt commercial approval of GM seeds. FOE wants the new Commission to put the interests of the public and countryside ahead of the biotech industry.
The Government is allowing GM farm scale trials to take place despite concerns about the impact that they may have on the environment and peoples' livelihoods.
"The public is rightly concerned about the effects that GM crops may have on the environment and about the way the Government has handled the issue. If this new Committee is to be more than just another PR exercise it needs to grasp the nettle," said Friends of the Earth Real Food Campaigner Adrian Bebb. "Public confidence can only be restored if the rush to commercial development is halted to allow a proper debate to take place. The Commission should call on the Government to abandon its GM trials programme and halt the commercial approval of GM seed."
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