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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 […]
26 October 2010
Objection to applications made by the South African Sugar Research Institute (SASRI) for trial re...
The South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI) has applied to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for permission to conduct field trials for 4 varieties of GM sugarcane. Having viewed SASRI’s applications in terms of the Public Access to Information Act (PAIA), it is our opinion that the information provided is so inadequate that […]
19 July 2010
UPDATE ON SANBI’S RESEARCH ON THE IMPACT OF MON 810 ON SA ENVIRONMENT
By the end of the year, the South African National Biosviersity Institute (SANBI), will conclude a three-year, R14 million rand research project on the impact of Monsanto’s GM maize variety MON810 on the South African environment. The research project is the first of its kind in South Africa, and will focus on the impacts on […]
7 July 2010
Syngenta’s response to the ACB’s objection to the general release of GA21 x Bt11
Syngenta has responded to the ACB’s objection to the general release of GA21 x Bt11. Read here.
7 July 2010
Monsanto’s response to ACB’s objection for field trials of drought tolerant maize
Monsanto has responded to the ACB’s objections for to field trials of its drought-tolerant maize. Read here.
7 July 2010
Monsanto’s response to ACB’s objection for trial release of Round-up Ready Canola
Monsanto has responded to the ACB’s objections for the trial release of Round-up Ready Canola. You can read it here.
22 June 2010
ACB’s Objection to Pioneer Hi-Bred’s commodity clearance application for GMSoya 30542...
The ACB has come to the following conclusions about Syngenta’s application: In terms of the molecular characterisation of the event: Furthermore, it is our contention that:
10 June 2010
ACB’s objection to Monsanto’s application for extended field trials of drought tolera...
In 2007 Monsanto South Africa applied for and was granted a trial release permit to conduct field trials with maize event MON87460, which has been genetically engineered for drought tolerance. Earlier this year the African Centre for Biosafety objected to a Monsanto application to import 35 hybrids for the continuation of these trials. Monsanto submitted […]
2 June 2010
ACB’s objection to GA21 x Bt 11
As usual, we have only been furnished with information that the developers deem to be ‘non-confidential’, so crucial data required to make a thorough independent assessment is missing. Excluded information included details of test data specific to South African growing conditions. The cauliflower mosaic virus 35s promoter (35S-CaMV) is present in GA21 x Bt11. There […]
31 May 2010
ACB’s objection to Monsanto’s commodity clearance application for Smartstax
On 20 April, Business Day carried a public notice of Monsanto’s application to the South African GMO registrar for permission to import Smartstax maize, arguably the world’s most controversial and risky commercially grown GMO. While the majority of commercially grown genetically engineered crops contain at most 3 foreign genes, Smartstax contains eight, 6 of which […]