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4 June 2013
Tiger Brand snubs consumers on GM Purity baby food concerns
Baby FoodTiger Brands has snubbed South African consumers who petitioned the company about high levels of genetically modified (GM) maize found in Tiger Brand’s Purity baby food products. In April 2013 GMO watchdog organisation, the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), sent two Purity products to an independent GMO testing laboratory to test for the presence […]
4 December 2012
ACB Comments on National Strategy on Agroecology
The Department of Agriculture is in the process of developing a Strategy for Agroecology for South Africa, with the aim of achieving “an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable agro-ecology sector that contributes towards poverty alleviation, job creation, food security, economic development, climate change mitigation and adaptation”. It is not clear where the drive for this […]
15 September 2012
Objections to Monsanto’s application for spate of field trials with GM drought tolerant mai...
Field trials with MON 87460 are currently underway in South Africa at Hopetown, Orania, Pretoria, Lutzville and Delareyville. These field trials form part of a larger initiative under the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) Project, a public-private partnership between African Agriculture Technology Foundation (AATF), Monsanto, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) and […]
10 September 2012
GMOs have made no impact on food security in South Africa in fourteen years. ACB responds to DA p...
On the 5th of September 2012 James Wilmot, Democratic Alliance MP and Shadow Minister of Trade and Industry, issued a press release claiming that poor consumers cannot benefit from the “cost savings offered by GMOs” because genetically modified (GM) foods cannot be labelled. He claimed that labelling could not be implemented without a testing facility […]
18 August 2012
Independent scientific biosafety assessment of the application for commodity clearance of transge...
This is ACB’s objection to the application by Dow Chemicals for approval for import into SA of its GM soyabean 2,4 D and glufosinate ammonium (DAS-68416-4). Read here.
6 August 2012
Dow’s APPLICATION FOR COMMODITY CLEARANCE of DAS-68416-4 [GM Soybeans 2.4] in SA
This is the non CBI version of the application submitted by Dow Chemicals to the SA GMO authorities for approval of its GM soybeans, 2,4 for importation into SA. Read here.
28 June 2012
ACB’s objection’s to Monsanto extended field trial application for drought tolerant m...
In 2007 Monsanto was granted a trial release permit to conduct field trials for its ‘drought tolerant’ maize event MON8746. These comments are in respect of a further extension application, submitted to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in May 2011. Read here.
17 April 2012
ACB objections to Pioneer Hi-Bred’s field trial applications for four new GM maize variety
Pioneer Hi-Bred, who are currently attempting to acquire South Africa’s largest remaining seed company, Pannar Seed, have submitted applications for field trials of four GM maize varieties. These are all stacked varieties inferring varying combinations of insect resistance and herbicide tolerance. Of particular concern is that all four varieties have been engineered to be used […]
9 January 2012
ACB comments on biofuels mandatory blending
The African Centre for Biodiversity hereby lodges its objections and comments to the draft regulations regarding the mandatory blending of biofuels with petrol and diesel. Read here.
26 August 2011
Objections and comments to the Biodiversity Management Plan for Pelargonium Sidoides, August 2011
This document contains the African Centre for Biosafety’s (ACB)’s objections and comments to the Biodiversity Management Plan for Pelargonium sidoides, published by the government on 29 July 2011. The ACB raises a number of fundamental problems with the proposed plan, including that the process followed in developing the plan is legally and fundamentally flawed. We […]