Trend: EU Parliament adopts GM food/feed labelling rules

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• Australian state governments ban GM rapeseed cultivation
• Dupont to conduct GM maize trial in Japan
• Debate concerning GM 'Protato' research in India
• GM cotton cultivation increasing in South Africa
• Death rate doubles among chickens fed with GM maize
• GM "pharm" crops R&D in Japan
• MEXT approves Gifu Univ's ES cell plan
• Japanese govt to ratify Cartagena BSP
• MAFF spending on rice genome: 45 billion yen in five years
• Tighter GM labelling regulation in Brazil
• GM contaminated sweet corn imported
• American farmers ignoring GM planting restrictions
• Concern over teeth development due to herbicide use
• Tokushukai warms to the 300,000 person gene bank program
• Natto made from GM soy to be sold by retired professor

• The meaning of recent developments with cloned animals
  
• Humans as a "resource" for ES cell production

Trend: USA brings EU before WTO in a challenge to the world

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• GM contamination in wheat in USA and Canada
• GM papaya review goes to Food Safety Commission
• Enforcement of China's GM soy regulations delayed again
• Monsanto takes reprisal measures against Brazil
• Anxiety over Bt cotton in India
• Marubeni to represent GM rice developer Crop Design
• Total withdrawal of Mitsubishi Chemicals from GM rice development
• GM chicken to be developed
• USA tries hard to downplay BSE outbreak
• Plants to produce hepatitis B vaccine
• Reform of the organ transplantation law
• MAFF to produce guidelines on experiments into prion disease

Trend: External field trials for GM rice approved

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• "Cloned cattle are safe" - MHLW research team
• MAT vector used for GE rice
• GM canola approval in Australia meets state government opposition
• New research on anti-terrorist GM plants
• Saudi Arabia - mandatory labeling for GM food
• UK - DNA code insertion in food
• Movement to stop GM wheat in Germany
• Direct action against biotek corporation
• Texas to prohibit drug producing GMOs
• ES cell manipulation at Kyoto University and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology
• Prion theory proven?
• Heated discussions over 300,000 person gene bank program
• The Post-Human Genome Project, ENCODE Project, gets underway
• Approval for production and sale of GM mouse

Trend: Regulations for genetically modified organisms come into force in Japan

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• Cultivation ratio of GM crops increases in US
• Experimental cultivation of GM Terminator oilseed rape in UK
• GM crop farming banned in Brazil
• Fujishima Town implements a restriction on GM crop cultivation
• US Department of Justice investigates Monsanto
• GM industries to make Hawaii the center of GM testing
• Lifting the GM moratorium in EU might take time
• Unapproved GM piglet meat enters US food chain
• GMO moratorium in Switzerland - petition for referendum
• GM cultivation protesters found guilty of trespassing
• GM-free declaration by a UK county government
• Class action suit filed against USDA on GM-pharming
• MHLW says no need to review GM food and allergy link
• Genetically modified mosquito unsuccessful
• Many abnormalities in Australian animal clones
• MHLW to finalize report on fertility treatments
• MEXT approves Gifu University plan for use of ES cells

Trend: Divided assessments over Bt cotton yields in India

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• Rootworm-resistant GM corn approved by US EPA
• Virus-resistant GM papaya could be allergenic
• GM crops unable to maintain effectiveness
• Acreage planted to GM crops increasing in US
• US Consumers group submits a critical recommendation on GMO safety consultation
• UK Environment Minister talks about genetic pollution
• Farm-raised GM salmon nearing commercialization in US
• Scientist warns GM food could be carcinogenic
• Baby food company goes GM free
• Hokkaido U. prof. to sell GM natto on Internet
• Cloned milk cows in New Zealand
• US student undergoes genetic engineering of ES cells
• GM tobacco to be commercialized
• MHLW holds international symposium on molecular epidemiology
• MHLW postpones decision on Kyushu U gene therapy plan

Trend: Somatic Cell Cloned Beef for Human Consumption

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• Possibility of more Bt-resistant pests
• Applications for herbicide-resistant GM wheat in Canada and US
• GM canola acreage increased to 64%
• Increased inflow of GM crops into Japan
• India rejects food aid
• Zambian Farm Minister's thought on GM food aid rejection
• GM cyclamen developed by Hokko Chemical
• American farmer loses court case with one judge dissenting
• Unstoppable StarLink contamination
• Side-effects of gene therapy force temporary suspension of program
• Preparing the ground for the lifting of the ban on human cloning?
• MLHW solicits public comments on reproductive assistance medicine

Trend: GM papaya to be approved as the first perishable GMO?

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• Monsanto CEO resigns
• EU Environment Ministers agree on GM food and feed labelling
• GM soybean business failing in Argentina
• Approval of GM mustard postponed in India
• GM tobacco field trial to be conducted in Bulgaria by RIKEN
• Commercial cultivation of Bt maize approved in the Philippines
• Puerto Rico being used as a testing ground by US GMO industry
• Cedar pollen allergen inserted into GM rice variety in Japan
• US BIO industry's guideline on "pharming"
• Citizens' victory in Takatsuki JT Bio court case
• MHLW postpones finalization of guidelines for therapeutic uses of human stem cells
• Current status of world GM "pharming" crops
• Molecular agriculture

Trend: Genetic pollution caused by GM crop "pharming" for pharmaceutical use

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• De facto suspension of GM rice "Matsuribare" R&D
• The British Medical Association (BMA) urges halt of GM canola trials
• British medical journal, The Lancet, raises questions over GM food safety
• China Seed Association President says Chinese fear GM Food
• Controversy around GM seed in Pakistan
• EU Agri Ministers agree on GMO labelling
• Reproductive malfunction in frogs from herbicide atrazine
• MHWL announces continuation of gene therapy treatments
• Is the cloned human baby story true?
• Genetic samples taken from Fukuoka Prefecture residents
• Biotechnology Strategy Council complete draft guidelines
• MHLW approves sampling of cells from deceased fetuses
• Unsatisfactory reply over the unapproved cultivation of GE corn at Tsukuba U.
• MEXT finally approves Shinshu U. Program