Semantically Engineered Grasses
Despite ongoing market resistance to use of the technology in the food chain and in key export markets, Pastoral Genomics and AgResearch are each committing tens of millions of …
Hide and Seek
Developers Skirt Around Detectability of Cisgenic GMOs.
Lack of transparency by the GM food industry has been a driver of market resistance to its products. Research in New Zealand and …
Betting the farm
If New Zealand chose not to approve the use of GM grasses developed by Pastoral Genomics, no economic penalty is expected as a non-GM technique could provide the same …
No Economic Penalty if GM Grass Bypassed
If New Zealand chose not to approve the use of GM grasses developed by Pastoral Genomics, no economic penalty is expected as a non-GM technique could provide the same …
MAF Not Adequately Risk Managing GM Contamination at the Border
The latest seed contamination incident makes clear that MAF is not adequately risk managing border protection against GM contaminants.
There are low and no cost biosecurity options MAF could have …
Brave New Biosecurity
Threats posed by new forms of GMOs under development represent a fundamental challenge to New Zealand’s approach to biosecurity labelling requirements. A relatively new treaty that regulates the international …
Leaving GM Contaminated Crops in the Ground Goes Against Market Realities
The recommendation by a Parliamentary select committee that GM contaminated crops be allowed to remain in the ground goes against market realities. Exporters cannot sell contaminated products to buyers …
New Rules Help Keep Food Pure
As many premium markets firm up on their unwillingness to accept even a trace of genetically modified content in food, New Zealand’s ability to meet this demand has quietly …
New Means to Check GM Contamination in Seed Imports
New practices for supplying maize seed to New Zealand demonstrate how the policy of zero tolerance to GM contaminated seed can be maintained at little or no cost to …
