Pew Press Release is reproduced below: The current industrial farm animal production (IFAP) system often poses unacceptable risks to public health, the environment and the welfare of the animals themselves, according to an extensive 2½-year …
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Civil Society Statement on Nanotechnology: Guiding Principles for Regulation
An international coalition of 44 food, environment and labour organisations is calling for urgent precautionary management of nanotechnology’s toxicity risks to human health and the environment, and its significant social challenges. The group has released …
Continue readingFarm Bill Amendment calls for NAS to Study Safety and Impacts of Cloned Meat and Animals
Press Release of the Center for Food Safety FDA APPROVAL OF CLONES STALLED BY PASSAGE OF MIKULSKI-SPECTER AMENDMENT IN FARM BILL Bill Passes by an Overwhelming Majority of 79 to 14; Coalition of Consumer, Farmer, …
Continue readingWhat Is Nature Biotechnology Good For?
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson The case of Irina Ermakova Quite likely it surprised regular readers of Nature Biotechnology that for the September (2007) issue their favoured journal had invented a new article format specifically …
Continue readingThe Excommunication of a Heretic
by Roland Fischer The article below is translated from an original article in the Swiss German-language newspaper WOZ An unusual article was published in the September printed edition of the science magazine “Nature Biotechnology”. The …
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