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Access to GM crop innovation now available to all mainland Australian states
Agri-biotech companies across all mainland Australian States now stand in-line with their global competitors, after the expiration of the NSW Government’s 18-year moratorium on genetically-modified crop innovations commenced this month.
Having long-lasting and certainty of access to current and future GM crops approved for commercialisation will encourage stronger research and innovation, and support the sector’s abilities to reach the growing population’s needs.
Access will be maintained to all GM crops that have been approved through the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator’s robust assessments.
International Trade in Crops with New Breeding Technologies: The Australian Perspective June 9, 2021
ISAAA and partners present the webinar International Trade in Crops with New Breeding Technologies: The Australian Perspective to provide an insight into the future landscape of trade involving gene-edited crops, particularly in relation to countries involved in the international trade of agricultural products. It will be held on June 11, 2021, at 2 PM Manila / 4 PM Sydney via Zoom.
Developments in regulations of gene-edited plants are changing rapidly. Increasingly more countries, including Australia, have implemented deregulation of gene-edited crops. In Australia, this followed a series of reviews by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. Common approaches are also emerging among many other countries.
ISAAA and partners present the webinar International Trade in Crops with New Breeding Technologies: The Australian Perspective to provide an insight into the future landscape of trade involving gene-edited crops, particularly in relation to countries involved in the international trade of agricultural products. It will be held on June 11, 2021, at 2 PM GMT+8 (4 PM Sydney) via Zoom.
Tonnes of toxic waste collected from British municipal dumps is being sent illegally to Africa in flagrant breach of this country’s obligation to ensure its rapidly growing mountain of defunct televisions, computers and gadgets are disposed of safely.
Hundreds of thousands of discarded items, which under British law must be dismantled or recycled by specialist contractors, are being packaged into cargo containers and shipped to countries such as Nigeria and Ghana, where they are stripped of their raw metals by young men and children working on poisoned waste dumps.
In a joint investigation by
The Independent, Sky News, and Greenpeace, a television that had been broken beyond repair was tracked to an electronics market in Lagos, Nigeria, after being left at a civic amenity site in Basingstoke run by Hampshire Country Council. Under environmental protection laws It was classified as hazardous waste and should never have left the UK.
There is the real news and then there is the fake news.
The radio news announced recently new economic figures showing better than expected data, and implying a sooner than expected economic upturn from the lockdowns.
Conversely, economist Martin Armstrong’s A.I. has predicted, for next year, a global economic depression far worse than the 1929 one.
It’s so easy to see who is telling the truth, or at least it will be next year, won’t it?
Pesticide – So Tuff
♦Director, Future Fisheries Veterinary Service Pty Ltd. Associate researcher, Sydney University, Faculty of Veterinary Science. Adjunct senior lecturer, Charles Sturt University, School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences