Current Press Releases
Health Ministers must not leave us 'Eating in the Dark'
11 December 2011
As the Food Regulation Ministerial Council met last week to adopt
key recommendations of the National Food Labelling review report, Labelling Logic, Gene Ethics called for the adoption of the review's recommendations to label all foods with no track record in the human food supply.
Roxon reckless on labelling of novel foods
03 December 2011
The federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has caved in to the overseas-dominated food processing industry by rejecting the Blewett National Labelling Review recommendation that there be a: “distinctive labelling protocol with regard to new food technologies,” to respond to: "further technological innovations in food production.”
Food regulator sued for secrecy on food irradiation
14 November 2011
Gene Ethics and the Safe Food Institute vs Food Standards Australia NZ (FSANZ) was due to be heard in the Federal Magistrates Court in Melbourne at 10.15am today. The applicants claim FSANZ failed to comply with the law that requires it to give complete and clear public notice. FSANZ admits it had also buried its own general revisions to Food Standard 1.5.2 on genetically manipulated foods within another specific application.
Food security in Commonwealth: GM not the answer
27 October 2011
Why countries are rejecting GM aid - the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) starts in Perth, but GM is not an answer to food security in the 54 Commonwealth member states.
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