Testbiotech has thus far published two reports on the risk assessment of genetically engineered crops in the EU (Then&Potthof, 2009; Then, 2010) and prepared several background papers. Here we have drawn up a short overview of the most relevant points for consultation on the environmental risk assessment of genetically engineered plants.
Irreführende Angaben zur staatlichen Förderung, Verharmlosung der Risiken
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
München/ Berlin
Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung macht irreführende Angaben zur finanziellen Förderung der Synthetischen Biologie. Auf eine Anfrage des Bundestagsabgeordneten Rene Röspel (SPD) antwortet das Ministerium von Annette Schavan (BT-Drs. 17/4898), dass es seit 2005 keine Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekte in diesem Bereich gefördert habe. Nach Recherchen von Testbiotech ist diese Aussage nicht korrekt.
The European Union Agriculture Council will on March 17 2011 deal with a market application of a so called 'stacked event' for MON 89034 × MON 88017 maize (Monsanto). Another new application for cotton GHB614 (Bayer) is on the agenda as well as renewal of application for maize 1507 (Pioneer). Testbiotech urges these applications be rejected, because necessary standards for assessing health risks are not met and recent publications show the need for further investigations.
EU Commissioner for Trade: Products from offspring of cloned animals already on the market
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Munich, Bruxelles
A non-public EU Commission paper confirms that food from offsprings of cloned animals are already on the European market. The animals get into the market via the import of breeding material from the US. The EU Trade Commission argues that in future too these products should not be regulated, labelled or controlled for unexpected risks, because so far no systems have been established for registering the animals in exporting countries such as the US.
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