Trend: Numerous reports of genetic abnormalities in cloned animals

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• Monsanto's Bt cotton approved in Japan
• Devastating damage by Bt cotton in India
• Spraying of sterile-virus in Australia
• Germany shifts towards organic farming in GM controversy
• Mandatory labelling of GM food in Russia
• Canadian farmer loses against Monsanto
• Preparing domestic laws in order to ratify Cartagena Protocol
• Does Agrobacterium infect animal cells?
• Shinshu University submits gene therapy plan to MHLW
• Plan to use human ES cells made public
• Feature: Labelling and Traceability in Europe - approval of the new labeling system by the European Parliament

Trend: Europe polluted with GM food

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• GM soy detected in organic food
• NIAS develops a new GM rice variety
• Crop Design begins GM rice experiments in China
• Development of a GM apple
• S. Korea produces cloned pig from GM somatic cell
• Optional GM labeling in U.S.
• Additional medical facility to participate in human ES cell program
• British government established human ES cell bank
• GM fish and cloned pets should be banned - UK report
• NRC recognizes dangers of GM animals
• Monsanto CEO retracts statement
• Monsanto to concentrate on agricultural biotechnology business
• Australian Green Party forgoes noncabinet alliance over GM crops
• Survey on GM food in China
• GM crop rip-up campaign in the Philippines
• Sri Lankan GM law not yet enforced

Trend: GM food safety assessment shows signs of collapse

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• Gene flow from herbicide tolerant crop to conventional crop
• First field trials for GM animal applied for
• GM fish could drive wild species to extinction
• Death rate doubled for chickens fed on GM maize
• GM food regulatory system must be strengthened in US
• 320,000 signatures demand R&D halt of GM rice
• Possible BSE infection by frozen chicken?
• Repercussions of New US Farm Bill
• "GM food label unnecessary" says US Secretary of Health and Human Services
• Clone Human: now in S. Korea?
• Decision deferred again on Shinshu Univ. human ES cell plan
• MHLW interim report on policy on science and technology
• Food labelling: Report to include both integration and status quo
• Counterarguments to the Benbrock Report begin
• Hormone treatment polluted pigs
• GM tree vaporizes mercury

Trend: Ripple effect of U.S. GM food aid to third world countries

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• China: Bt cotton is harmful for environment
• Monsanto's GM cotton deferred
• GM contamination in non-GM food
• Largest Australian food company states it will not supply GM food
• Consumers' demands reached MEPs
• Food Labelling Conference goes for full legal integration
• MHLW completes clinical research guidelines on xenotransplantation
• Consumers dissatisfied with GM food labelling regulation
• Naked chicken made by genetic engineering
• New US Farm Bill to protect Monsanto?
• Swiss food regulation laws revised
• Trade war between EU and USA!?
• Abnormalities continue with somatic cell cloned cattle
• Bone marrow stem cell also has high degree of multifunctionality
• Purpose of cloned embryo was to gain patent

Trend: Unanticipated problems with GM crops

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• Illegal cultivation spreading in Brazil
• Zimbabwe rejects GM corn
• Is Monsanto pulling Nature's strings?
• Change of policy in US Academy of Sciences?
• GM fish to drive out non-native carp species
• Missouri Univ. obtains patent on cloned humans!?
• No settlement on labeling issue in Codex Committee meeting
• Monsanto's sales to increase by a billion dollars next fiscal year?
• Monsanto Japan sells herbicide business
• Japan Tobacco Inc. pulls out of Orynova
• Citizens meeting held to oppose approval of human ES cell approval
• Ministries publish preliminary report on Cartagena Biosafety Protocol
• Move towards establishment of a new food safety agency
• De facto approval of import of unapproved GM crops by MAFF
• MAFF R&D project on "Regeneration of Food and Agriculture"
• MAFF: Traceability to begin with beef in 2003?
• National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES) gives public presentation

Trend: Monsanto goes for world domination in soy and cotton

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• Monsanto canola gene contaminated!?
• Gene contamination in Mexico widespread
• USA and China bow to pressure over GM soy
• China joins in rice genome sequencing war
• Cancer risk high in pregnancies using clone technology
• Simultaneous anti-GMO actions throughout Russia
• Stiff debate in Brazil over GM soy
• Honda Motor Co., Ltd. joins with Nagoya University to Develop a Non-Lodging, High-Yield Rice
• Japanese MHLW and MEXT wrap up ethical guidelines on epidemiological research
• MHLW Creates a Mountain of Problems with its Approval of the "Right to Know Your Roots"
• DuPont's Next: High-Isoflavone Soy

Trend: Monsanto makes application for GM wheat, GM rice

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• MAFF report on BSE - no mention of cause of BSE
• A New Problem Discovered in GM Soy
• GM Potato Labeling with the USA in Mind
• UK: Food firm fined for unlabelled GM soya products
• Deliberation on StarLink continues
• Commercial cultivation of GM crops increasing
• English Nature - warning that GM crops may become complex weeds
• GM maize detected in animal feed from USA
• Developing therapeutic use guidelines for human stem cell
• Results of gene therapy at Hokkaido Univ.?
• People in Brazil are saying no to GM crops!
• GM apple R&D of in Iwate prefecture

Trend: "Rejuvenation" of cloned animals and ova

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• Bt corn: effect on butterflies in nature
• The economic consequences of GM soya?
• Group of Scientists concerned about GMOs in US and UK
• Belgian Crop Design Co. starts GM rice testing in developing countries
• Towards Hothouse Experiments Using MAT Vectors
• Expert hearing on human-embryo debate begins
• 65 million yen budget for biological terrorism countermeasures
• Mitsui Chemicals Initiates Commercial Sales of Rice Seed
• MHLW and MEXT give go-sign to gene therapeutic treatment plans
• Results of the 3rd Ad hoc Codex Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology

Trend: GM pigs and the second generation of GM crops

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• Genome sequencing of rice to be completed by year end
• MAFF establishes research centre to study rice genome use
• MHLW examines clinical application guidelines for reproductive medicine
• Unapproved GM papaya discovered
• Cultivation area of GM crops increasing
• Events following the transgenic contamination of indigenous corn varieties in Mexico
• Croatia to ban GM foods
• 6 Ministries work for ratification of Cartagena Biosafety Protocol
• Will EU proposal on traceability system for GM crops be effective?
• GM spider thread from mammal cell
• Controversial MHLW plan on fertility treatment
• Strategy on intellectual property, life patent issue begins

Trend: GM grain from US to Asian countries

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• 3 more approvals for GM food, food additives
• Growing concern over transgenic pollution in Canada
• Growing public awareness against GM corn in the Philippines
• Illegal Bt cotton cultivation discovered in India
• Life Ethics Committee starts discussion on human-embryo research
• Terminator seed business set to start in US
• Gene therapy to be applied to wider range of diseases
• Unusual prion detected from urine and blood
• GM wheat field test rejected in Switzerland
• Bt toxin pollution in Canadian rivers
• Gene therapy guidelines relaxed
• A GM corn herpes treatment

Trend: A structure built on risks

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• Growing numbers of vCJD cases in UK
• Characteristics of vCJD
• MHLW: slow start on outlines for fertility treatments
• Osaka Univ. two-faced on gene therapy
• Transgenic contamination of indigenous corn varieties in Mexico
• Japan Tobacco buys rights to develop and market new lung cancer vaccines
• Japanese government establishes a Biotechnology Strategy HQ
• Japanese government biotechnology budget
• Increasing national budget for rice genome research
• Assessment of Human ES cell research held in secret

Trend: Increase in biological disasters from human negligence

Feature: The current state of cow cloning

• Mysterious stillbirth, sudden death of cloned calves
• MHLW searching for ways to sell cloned cow meat for human consumption

• Basic Guidelines for Human-Embryo Research to be published in December
• 7-year approval extension or Bt corn in US
• GM seed contamination discovered in Japan
• Doubts over the safety assessment of GM tomato
• Doubts over the safety assessment of GM soya
• Era of the Big 4 Agri-bio Giants
• MHLW starts GMO test on animals
• Citizens group appeal on Bio terrorism

Trend: BSE and the worsening feed problem

Feature: BSE and animal feed

• Government: wait and see on BSE all-clear announcement
• GM feed additives developed by Ajinomoto Co., Inc., to be approved

• Canada moves towards GM food labelling
• GM food: key issue is promoter genes
• Towards GM potato labelling
• Revealed: GM corn StarLink lies
• Contraceptive corn: GM corn which attacks human sperm
• Greenpeace protests GM fish patent
• Concerning Embryonic Stem (ES) cells
• Suntory Ltd. withdraws GM carnation in Japan

Trend: BSE and GMO food

Feature: Food Safety

• US SAP recommends EPA ban GM corn StarLink
• Towards approval of GM corn StarLink in Japan
• Rush for approval of NewLeaf Plus Potato and RoundUp Ready Canola "RT200"
• Current development of Terminator technology

• Nature rejects paper on danger of GM field test
• Increasing weed resistance to herbicide RoundUp
• Monsanto takes aim at GM wheat
• Oji Paper Co. has GM plantation strategy
• Japan Tobacco's lawsuit and citizen arraignment
• Relaxation of Embryonic Stem (ES) cell regulation
• Unification of guidelines by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

Trend: GM Rice - The main market will be Asia

Feature: GM rice

• Aventis to get approval of its Liberty Link Rice for commercialization
• Philippine farmers protest against field testing of Bacterial Blight Rice
• Monsanto's preferred GM rice option is Koshihikari?
• Increased criticism of Golden Rice
• A national project on novel rice development

• GM label requirements: differences between EU and Japan
• GM cultivated area in US
• GM pigs consumed in US
• Genetically altered baby in Japan?
• Application for permit to Produce Human Embryonic Stem (ES) cell at Kyoto Univ.

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