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 …
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Farm 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, …
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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 …
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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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The article below is reprinted from the British magazine Private Eye, No. 1194, 28 September-11 October 2007. The ‘heavy-handed’ libel threats referred to below temporarily closed the GM Watch website this summer. Heavy-handed libel threats …
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