| Biotech News in Review: 12.12.08 |
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| Written by Kiki Hubbard | |
| Friday, 12 December 2008 | |
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India's Health Minister wants to ban transgenic crops and food, even though the country has increasingly accepted new biotech varieties and is poised to release transgenic Brinjal (eggplant). This would be the first engineered vegetable to reach India's marketplace. Also in India, farmers are panicked over a drastic yield decrease where one contributing factor has been pest infestations in insect-resistant Bt cotton, which is engineered to resist only one class of pest: bollworms. The EU approves Monsanto's Roundup Ready 2 soybeans after much debate. The EU allows the European Commission to "rubberstamp GMO authorizations" when ministers can't agree on an approval. Grist asks if the Obama Administration will be the first to regulate transgenic crops. While the President-elect called for stronger regulation on the campaign trail, we'll see if he's committed to fixing a faulty framework. Monsanto joins forces with the Nature Conservancy to tackle runoff pollution in the Mississippi River. The company gave $5 million toward the effort. Scientific American explains how Hawaii became "a sprawling living nursery" for transgenic corn seed and field trials, and that the debate around biotech taro and coffee in Hawaii -- all biotech crops, really -- will not end anytime soon. The USA Rice Federation says its 2008 samples of Southern long-grain rice were nearly 100% free of transgenic traits. These findings are important following contamination discovered in 2006, an event that cost the rice industry upwards of $1 billion.
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