26/November/19

 

New Zealand's Royal Society/Te Apārangi and others want to rewrite the country's GMO rules to smooth the path to market for products of new gene-editing technologies. Yet the calls for a legislative rethink have been met with a quick brush-off. Environment Minister David Parker said there were "no plans to review the regulatory framework relating to genetic modification". [GMW: This long article is worth reading to the end for the insights of Prof Jack Heinemann of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Jon Carapiet of GE-Free NZ.] Stuff

 

 

The Mexican government says it won’t allow a 1,000-ton shipment of the pesticide glyphosate into the country, citing health and environmental concerns. Mexico became the latest in a string of countries to announce bans on glyphosate, the active ingredient in weedkiller Roundup. ABC News

 

 

"Pesticide products constitute a serious danger for exposed populations": with these words the administrative court justified its decision concerning the pesticides ban implemented by the mayor of the French commune of Antony last May. The court decided on Monday to reject the request of the prefecture of Hauts-de-Seine to suspend the decree prohibiting pesticide use in the city. Antony can therefore ban pesticides, including glyphosate, on its territory. On 8 November, a judge of the same court rejected the suspension of two other pesticide bans in the towns of Gennevilliers and Sceaux. France Bleu (French language article)