(From January 2013)

Headlines of all articles in Bio Journal translated into English (most recent at top, abbreviations table at foot of page). Where the entire article has been translated into English the headline below is linked to the article. For further information, kindly contact CBIC staff at: cbic@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp

Contents

Trend:
Results of the vote on GM food labelling in Washington State (Star Tribune 2013/11/8, Reuters 2013/10/17, Care2 Causes 2013/10/29, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2013/10/15)

News

• EU approves SmartStack (Test biotech 2013/11/12)
• EU approves new GM maize (Planet Ark-World Environment News 2013/11/5)
• UK environment minister criticizes the environmental movement (Yahoo News UK 2013/10/17, Mail Online 2013/10/21)
• Mexican federal court verdict bans cultivation of GM maize (Food First 2013/10/15)
• Damage from GM soy cultivation becomes clear in Argentina (The New York Times 2013/10/25 and others)
• Armenia strengthens GMO restrictions (Arka 2013/10/28)
• First GM crop approval in Bangladesh (The Daily Star 2013/11/5, Dhaka Tribune 2013/11/12)
• Commercial cultivation of GM rice to begin in the Philippines in 2016 (The Peninsula 2013/11/6)
• China puts the whole country behind GMO promotion (China Real Times Report 2013/10/25)
• Luxembourg introduces gReared without GMOsh labelling (Sustainable Pulse 2013/10/16)
• South Australia extends moratorium on GMO cultivation (Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2013/11/8)
• GM sweetcorn distributed in Canada (Canadian Biotechnology Action Network 2013/10/24)
• Roundup increases bacteria that cause cancer (Natural Society 2013/10/28)
• Series of GM soy varieties that are tolerant to strong herbicides developed (CBC News 2013/10/16)
• New GM wheat developed in Pakistan (Forman Christian College 2013/10/25)
• McDonalds and others reject GM apple (International Business Times 2013/11/12)
• Strengthening of Monsantofs lobbying activity seen in its expenditures (International Business Times 2013/10/25)
• MHLW simplifies screening of GM additives

Contents

Trend:
US gMonsanto Protection Acth invalidated (GM Watch 2013/9/24)

News

• Finally, referendum on the GM food labelling bill in Washington State (NW News Network 2013/10/7 and The Daily Californian 2013/9/20)
• Russia bans all GMO products (Sustainable Pulse 2013/10/3)
• First outdoor release of a GM animal in the EU approaches (Sustainable Pulse 2013/9/10)
• Bill banning GMOs adopted in Canadafs British Columbia Parliament (Metro News 2013/9/24)
• Demo in Hawaii to demand GM food regulations (KHON2 2013/9/9)
• Anti-Monsanto action in Canada (Briarpatch Magazine 2013/9/9)
• GM papaya trees felled in Hawaii (Salon 2013/10/1)
• Bill to strengthen GMO regulation submitted to NZ Auckland Council (New Zealand News 2013/9/24)
• Problems with NZ GM food labelling (NZ Herald News 2013/10/1)
• Anxiety continues for parents of GM rice human trial children (CRI English 2013/9/24)
• Zambia holds fast to rejection of GMOs (The Epoch Times 2013/9/18)
• Fear of contamination also leads to refusal to buy non-GMO alfalfa (Reuters 2013/9/18)
• Herbicide resistant GM rice easily gives rise to superweeds (Science Daily 2013/10/3)
• MAFF and MoE 2012 GM rapeseed volunteer survey

Contents

Trend:
Moves to enact food labelling laws in US states (Check biotech 2013/8/5, WBEZ 2013/8/8, The Florida Current 2013/8/29, The National Law Review 2013/8/5)

News

• USDA researcher says new GM crops require long-term testing (American Institute of Biological Sciences 2013/7)
• Insecticide-resistant insect pests increase in Illinois (Reuters 2013/8/29)
• Brazil GMO patent fee case reaches conciliation (GM Watch 2013/7/28)
• Chilean government and moves to enact Monsanto law (RT 2013/8/20)
• French government counters verdict making GMO ban measure invalid (GM Watch 2013/8/3)
• All French GMO field testing suspended (Le Monde 2013/7/17)
• Government-led long-term animal testing of GMOs begins in France (Actu-Environnement 2013/7/15)
• Rotterdam City Council bans use of Roundup (Occupy Monsanto 2013/7/19)
• Biosafety law enacted in Ghana (Ghana Business News 2013/8/2, Food Sovereignty Ghana 2013/8/2, Ghana Web 2013/8/12 and others)
• China begins imports of Argentine maize (Reuters 2013/8/7)
• Applications for approval of four varieties of GM aubergine in Bangladesh (Truth About Trade andTechnology 2013/8/7)
• Large-scale demo against gMonsanto protection lawh in India (Truth Out 2013/8/26)
• Costa Rica moves towards becoming a GMO-free country (Costa Rica Star 2013/8/23)
• Drought resistant crops developed in Israel (English News China 2013/8/2)
• Disease-resistant potato developed in Argentina (Crop Biotech Update 2013/8/8)
• Testing of GM cold-resistant eucalyptus to be extended at Tsukuba University
• New herbicide-tolerant soybean also to be approved in Japan soon
• iPS cells to play major role in economic growth
• GMO crop approvals for this month

Contents

Trend:
Unapproved GM papayas comingled with papayas imported from Thailand

News

• Italy bans the cultivation of the EU-approved MON810 (Farming News 2013/06/26)
• The European Food Safety Authority introduces long-term animal testing for GM food assessment (GMO Seralini 2013/07/31)
• Monsanto gives up the idea of selling GM seeds in Europe (Reuters 2013/07/18)
• A series of GMO-free resolutions appear in Oregon counties (The Oregonian 2013/07/18)
• The US government and others tracks anti-GMO civilians and scientists (Sustainable Pulse 2013/07/15)
• US adults have strong concerns over GM foods (The New York Times 2013/07/27)
• Monsanto patent application rejected in India (Navdanya 2013/07/10)
• Application for cultivation of GM aubergine in Bangla Desh (The Daily Star 2013/07/16 and 23)
• Pakistan farmers demand damage survey for Bt cotton (Business Recorder 2013/07/15)
• US Department of Agriculture recognizes GMO free labelling (The New York Times 2013/07/02)
• Did the Canadian goose cause GM wheat pollution? (Ottawa Citizen 2013/07/26)
• Japanese government resumes sales of Oregon wheat
• Another experimental GM mosquito release in a Brazilian city (Oxitec 2013/06/28)
• GM broccoli strong in heat (City of Ate 2013/07/11)
• Purple tomato created (Deccan Herald 2013/07/17)
• Test cultivation for disease resistant cassava in Africa (Science World Report 2013/07/19)
• Increased oil content in GM jatropha (Oil Office 2013/07/19)

Closeup
Biotechnology Now

Contents

Trend:
GM food labelling law enactment spreading throughout the US (USA Today 2013/06/24; International Business Times 2013/06/06; The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram 2013/06/11; New York Daily News 2013/06/03)

News

• Approval delayed of new herbicide tolerant crop planned as countermeasure to superweeds (New York Times 2013/05/10)
• US government declares GM wheat safe (Reuters 2013/07/03)
• GMO regulation bill debated in Oregon, where GM wheat was discovered (Portland Business Journal 2013/06/05)
• Joint development of new GM rice and wheat varieties by USA, Australia and India (The Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics 2012/05/22)
• Farmers and Consumers Organization to sue Monsanto (The Wall Street Journal 2013/06/06)
• Brazilian Supreme Court rules as invalid payment of GMO patent fees after expiry of validity (Ascom Aprosoja and Famato 2013/05/17)
• Brazilian consumer protection organization demands cancellation of NK603 approval (Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection 2013/05/19)
• Unapproved GM soy discovered being cultivated in Belize (Scoop News 2013/06/13)
• GM seeds to be banned in Venezuela (Press Latina 2013/06/01)
• Costa Rican ombudsman indicts GM crop approvals (The Tico Times 2013/06/05)
• GM crop volunteers confirmed for the first time in Republic of Korea (The Hankyoreh 2013/06/05)
• China disposes of US GM maize (GM Watch 2013/05/22)
• Where approval is going with Chinafs RR2 GM soy (Gene Watch 2013/06/06)
• Philippine court orders suspension of cultivation of GM Bt aubergine (Business Mirror 2013/05/22)
• Cultivation of unapproved herbicide tolerant cotton expands in India (Down to Earth 2013/05/22)
• Hungarian government decides on disposal of GM crops (Redebrasilatual 2013/05/24)
• GM feed harms pigsf health (Thomson Reuters 2013/06/11)
• Concern over impact of GM salmon on natural world (Telegraph 2013/05/29)
• Bayer builds development base in US (Bayer Crop Science 2013/05/15)

Closeup
Two recent court cases on gene patents

Contents

Trend:
GM wheat discovered on a farm in one of the breadbaskets of the USA (USDA 2013/05/29 and others)

News

• Senate to be vote on Vermontfs labelling bill next year (Center for Food Safety 2013/05/30)
• Connecticut state senate passes GM food labelling law (Food Safety News 2013/05/28)
• GM bean trial suspended in Australia to continue in Europe (New Mathilda 2013/05/01)
• EU parliament resolution expressing concerns about GM crops due to EU-USA free trade agreement (Japan Agricultural Newspaper 2013/05/28)
• UK to use GM feed, other EU countries to maintain non-GM feed (GM Watch 2013/04/12, All About Feed 2013/05/08)
• Journal that published the Caen University paper to lose independence (Independent Science News 2013/05/20)
• US senate passes eMonsanto protection lawf (New York Daily News 2013/05/23)
• Superweeds spread in Canada (Manitoba Co-operator 2013/05/07)
• 99.99% of opinions against GM trees in opinion poll (Global Justice Ecology Project 2013/04/30)
• GM-free seafood campaign begins in US (Friends of the Earth 2013/05/20)
• Tasmania moratorium on GM crop cultivation extended (Australian Broadcasting Association 2013/05/28)
• Indonesian government approves GM sugar cane (The Jakarta Post 2013/05/20)
• Indian citizensf group campaigns against GM banana (The Hindu Business Line 2013/05/23)
• Call for GM soy not to be used in Taiwanese school lunches (The China Post 2013/05/08)
• Herbicide Roundup causes illness (Reuters 2013/04/28)
• Bt maize has impacts on salmon (British Journal of Nutrition 2013/04)
• Del Monte develops GM pineapple (Capital Press 2013/04/16)
• Monsanto halts GM maize production in Europe (Investigative Reporting Denmark 2013/05/29)
• World anti-Monsanto Day (USA Today 2013/05/26)

Closeup
The GM wheat problem

Contents

Trend:
GM salmon close to approval – the battle is over food labelling (Food Safety News 2013/04/05, Center for Food Safety 2013/04/15, Alaska Native News 2013/04/23, KXRO Newsradio 2013/04/23, The Guardian 2013/03/20)

News

• Doubts over the effectiveness of stack varieties (University of Arizona News 2013/03/28)
• GM food RNA that affect humans (Centre for Research in Biosafety, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSR) 2013/03/21)
• Damage to butterflies caused by GM crop herbicides (Star Tribune 2013/03/16)
• Use of pesticides increases as a countermeasure to a new pest due to Bt cotton cultivation (The Hindu Business Line 2013/04/09)
• Soy resistant to three types of herbicide (Delta Farm Press 2013/03/06)
• EC approval of GM soy is invalid – lawsuit filed with European Court of Justice (Test Biotech 2013/03/21)
• Italy fails to recognize extension of GM maize approval (Phys.org 2013/04/04)
• Unapproved GM maize leaks out of South Africa (Africa Centre for Biosafety 2013/04/15 and others)
• Damage to Bt crops due to resistant pests spreads in Brazil (Stop the Crop 2013/04/03)
• GM technology exported to India from Australia (Deccan Herald India 2013/04/22)
• GMOs detected in rice imported by Turkey (Ayse Bereket 2013/05/03)
• GM crop approvals for March 2013

Closeup
New situation in US statesf GM food labelling laws

Shelved bill goes to referendum in Washington State (Food Navigator 2013/04/29)

Labelling bill passes Hawaii State Legislature House of Representatives but fails in the Senate (The Guardian Island 2013/04/13 and others)

GM food labelling bill submitted in Maine (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association 2013/04/04 and The Portland Press Herald 2013/04/24)

GM food labelling bill passes both houses in Vermont to be enacted (Rutland Herald 2013/04/21)

Labelling bill also submitted in New York State (Huffington Post 2013/04/30)

Contents

Trend:
Impacts on butterflies from GM crop cultivation (Los Angeles Times 2013/03/13, Ecological Modelling 2013/02/10)

News

• GM papaya growing wild in Okinawa
• Doubts over Egyptfs GM crop planted area given in ISAAA report (Egypt Independent 2013/03/14)
• GM edible oil withdrawn from large Portuguese supermarket (The Portugal News 2013/02/27)
• EFSA makes animal testing compulsory for food safety assessments (Europolitics 2013/02/27, Food Navigator 2013/03/08)
• Bargaining at US-EU FTA talks (Thomson Reuters 2013/03/06, The Financial Times 2013/03/08)
• US ice cream firm to exclude GMOs (Organic & Non-GMO Report 2013/02/28)
• Anti-GMO farmer leader assassinated in Paraguay (Toxic Soy 2013/03/07)
• The reason for Chinafs postponement of the introduction of GM crops (Thomson Reuters 2013/03/07)
• Food labelling bills submitted one after another in US state legislatures (Journal Star 2013/03/02, Philadelphia Inquirer 2013/03/12)
• 55 US senators and representatives demand GM food labelling (Center for Food Safety 2013/03/12)
• Major US food chain begins GM food labelling in all stores (The New York Times 2013/03/08, Natural Products Association 2013/03/20)
• Canadafs Guelph University resumes development of GM pig (American Society of Animal Science (2013/03/06)
• Life patent contravenes ethical regulation says opposition statement (Test biotech 2013/03/07)
• Into the second year of GM rice for the treatment of pollen allergy
• GM crop approvals for February 2013

Closeup
TPP and GM crops

Contents

Trend:
Present state of GM crop cultivation (ISAAA 2013/02/19)

News

• Presence of toxic virus gene suspected (Daily Mail 2013/01/21)
• Outlook for GM crops: rice and wheat next (Thomson Reuters 2013/02/20)
• Deadline for public comments on GM salmon extended (Food Navigator 2013/02/18)
• Approval for Dowfs new herbicide tolerant GM maize postponed (Reuters 2013/01/18)
• Brazil patent dispute; Monsanto squirms out of court (GM Watch 2013/01/24)
• GM crop cultivation ban proceeds in Costa Rica (The Tico Times 2013/02/06)
• Serbia reviews policy on GMO ban in move toward WTO accession (Southeast European Times 2013/02/23)
• GMO management law to pass soon in Russia (All About Feed 2013/02/01)
• GMO crops to go on a licensing system in Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Business Center 2013/02/01)
• Will the European Commission abolish the approval system for honey contaminated with GM pollen? (GM Freeze 2013/02/11)
• ISAAA report shows contradictions with the state of GM crop cultivation in S Africa (The African Centre for Biosafety 2013/02/25)
• Farmers react angrily to promotion of GM maize by Philippine government (Greenpeace Philippines 2013/1/24)
• Two New Zealand local councils to ban GM crop cultivation (Voxy 2013/02/04)
• Current situation with GM food labelling in USA (Numerous sources, February and march 2013)

Closeup
International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) reports on GM crop cultivation data for 2012.

Contents

Trend:
Movement demanding GM food labelling becoming active in US state legislatures (The Orange County Register 2012/01/09, The New Mexican 2012/01/18, Kansas City University Radio 2013/01/16, Mail Tribune 2013/01/10, The Packer 2013/01/18)

News

• German court dismisses disclosure of original version of herbicide research report (GM Watch 2012/12/18)
• BASF completely withdraws from EU (AFP 2013/01/29)
• Unjust judgement by Belgian court in GMO trial (Belgian Field Liberation Movement 2013/01/15)
• Data for GM maize gNK603h disclosed (Fox Business 2013/01/14)
• Monsantofs false ad (Earth Open Source 2012/12/18)
• Domestic biodiversity conference held in India (The Hindu 2013/01/08)
• Voices for and against a Kenyan GM crop import ban (GM Education 2012/12/13)
• Trial cultivation of GM maize approved in Costa Rica (The Costa Rica News 2013/01/13)
• Mexican farmers hunger strike to protest commercial planting of GMOs (La Via Campesina 2013/01/23)
• Alaska shaken by imminent approval of GM frog (Alaska Native News 2013/01/14, Anchorage Press 2013/01/31)
• British also demanding GM labelling (The Guardian 2013/01/09)
• GMO-free municipalities coordinate in Canada (Gold Stream News Gazette 2013/01/17)
• Herbicide Roundup has adverse impacts on intestinal bacteria (GM Watch 2012/12/15)
• Roundup resistant weeds confirmed by more than half of farmers (Farm Industry News 2013/01/29)
• US Department of Agriculture subsidizes GM pig development to the tune of half a million bucks (Sustainable Food News 2012/01/26)
• GM crop approvals for November and December 2012

Closeup
The cause of the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria

Contents

Trend:
GM salmon draft environmental assessment issued: gsafeh (New York Times 2012/12/21 and others)

News

• US Congress to pass gMonsantofs ridersh (The Progressive 2012/12/13)
• Judiciary judgement split on cultivation of GMOs in US wildlife sanctuaries (Beyond Pesticides 2012/10/22, Center for Food Safety 2012/11/08)
• Oregon organic farmers aim for GMO-free zone due to GM pollution (Non-GMO Report 2012/11/01)
• Brazilfs GM planted crop area expands (Thomson Reuters 2012/12/17)
• Unapproved GM gSmartStackh distributed in EU (Test biotech 2012/12/20)
• Poland moves to ban cultivation of GM crops (France 24 2012/01/02)
• Long-term animal experiments to be conducted for EU GM safety assessment (EU Food Policy 2012/12/17)
• Azerbaijan introduces GMO management system (All About Feed 2012/12/21)
• Russia lifts ban on GM maize gNK 603h (Farmers Guardian 2013/01/03)
• China dismisses official related to human testing of GM rice (Comtex News Network 2012/12/06)
• Japanese soy export returned from China due to GM soy contamination (Mainichi Chugoku Keizai, 2012/12/19)
• GM food labelling system begins in India (The Hindu Business Line 2012/12/31)
• Washington State petition demanding GM labelling surpasses 300,000 signatures (Capital Press 2012/12/19)
• GM food labelling bill submitted to New Mexico state parliament (Triple Pundit 2012/12/24)
• GM sugar beet becomes eligible for emissions trading (Business Week 2012/12/19)
• End of somatic cell clone technology (MAFF 2012/12/11)
• DuPont forms gsoybean policeh (Bloomberg 2012/11/28)

Closeup
GM Salmon issues

Contents

Trend:
Impact of the Caen University animal experiments spreads (GM Watch 2012/10/28, GM Watch 2012/11/16, The Greens 2012/11/29, and others)

News

• Rapid decline of production and export of non-approved GMO contaminated Canadian flax (Commodity News Service Canada 2012/10/11)
• Investigation of antitrust laws by Monsanto called off (Mother Jones 2012/12/01)
• Bolivia enacts law banning GMOs (Censored News 2012/10/25)
• Peruvian government freezes GMOs (The Argentina Independent 2012/11/14)
• Large-scale GM maize cultivation plan about to take Mexico (ETC Group 2012/11/15)
• Problems with the EU approval of herbicide Roundup (Farming 2012/11/12)
• The structure of corruption in Europefs food administration (GM Watch 2012/10/14)
• Negotiations between Pakistani state government and Monsanto stalemated (Express Tribune 2012/10/17)
• Report calls for freezing of Bt crops in India (Economic Times 2012/10/19, GE Free NZ 2012/11/26)
• Large drop in Indiafs cotton production (Daily News and Analysis 2012/11/26)
• Demand for cultivation of golden rice to be suspended (Davao Today 2012/11/12)
• Movement for GM food labelling law spreads in USA (Santa Cruz.com 2012/11/20, Food and Watch 2012/11/15, Chicago Tribune 2012/11/20)
• US San Juan Island goes GMO free (Journal of the San Juan Island 2012/11/08)
• District of Metchosin (BC, Canada) declares itself GMO free (Goldstream News Gazette 2012/11/30)
• GM lawn contamination becomes severe (Molecular Ecology 2012/10)
• Fears about new herbicide resistant crops (Purdue University 2012/11/15)
• Damage due to resistant insect pests clarified (Bloomberg 2012/11/16)
• Company developing a GM frog comes under influence of Monsanto (Food and Water Watch 2012/11/09)

Closeup
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and African countries (IRRI 2012/11/05, ICGEB 2012/11/08. Market Watch 2012/11/16, Citizen News 2012/11/08, Daily News 2012/11/07)