GM rules blocked at Biosafety meeting1 June 2005
New Zealand and Brazil scuppered hopes for new rules to control GM crops at the Biosafety Protocol meeting in Montreal, Canada.
This is despite over 100 countries demanding controls to limit GM contamination.
Decontamination team outside Biosafety meeting
The negotiations aimed to bring in international rules to reduce contamination from imported GM crops and introduce full labelling.
But Brazil and New Zealand sided with the biotech companies and blocked all moves to make the laws stronger.
Two countries acting in the interest of big business held the talks to hostage and destroyed the hopes of improving international laws
Juan Lopez, GM Co-ordinator,
Friends of the Earth International
A new Friends of the Earth report shows why tough measures are essential. Tackling GMO Contamination (PDF) highlights cases of GM contamination and makes a series of practical recommendations.
And a new online register of GM contamination incidents has been launched to give details of all known cases that have taken place worldwide.
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