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BioScience News and Advocate Daily Highlights 31/3
Daily Highlights
1. GMO consultation begins
2.
Scotland introduces new GM regs
3. GM import ban
endangers lives, WFP says
4. Ocean dead zone claims
mystify NZ scientists
5. Stem cells deliver cancer
killing proteins
6. Fonterra to expand colostrum
programme
GMO consultation begins
Consultation on
legislation to implement and enforce new European
regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) started
on 30 March 2004. The United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency
and the ...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7083
Scotland
introduces new GM regs
Moves aimed at introducing tougher
safeguards over genetically modified products were launched
by the Scottish Government today. Guidance published by the
Advisory Committee on Releases to the...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7086
GM
import ban endangers lives, WFP says
A United Nations
effort to feed nearly two million hungry Angolans, most of
them former war refugees, is imperiled because Angola's
government plans to outlaw imports of genetically modified
cereals, ...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7087
Ocean
dead zone claims mystify NZ scientists
Marine areas
starved of oxygen and labelled "dead zones" are appearing
off New Zealand's coast, United Nations scientists warn. The
claim is made in the UN Environment Programme's Global
Environme...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7088
Stem
cells deliver cancer killing proteins
Stem cells, the
immature cells already showing promise as tools to
regenerate and replace damaged tissue, may also help target
and destroy cancer.US scientists say tests in mice shows the
cells co...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7092
Fonterra
to expand colostrum programme
The global market for
colostrum is expanding rapidly and Fonterra is aiming to
ramp up collection of this specialty ingredient, used in a
range of niche health products, during the 2004/05
season....
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7094
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