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Brazilians organizations denounce Brazil for not complying with international biosafety rules
Document delivered to the Compliance Comittee of the Protocol highlights Brazilian inaction to cope with illegal transgenic plantations and the absence of safety studies for GM maize
Update February 2008
Lula's government approves the commercial growing of two GM maize varieties ignoring health and environmental officials agencies advices.
Update November-December 2007
Rio de Janeiro, December 20, 2007. Campaigning of civil society organizations, as well as actions from the Prosecutors Office and Federal Court, have found ways to cut through the technocracy and bring to the public arena much needed debate concerning an issue crucial to our agriculture, health, environment, and food safety and sovereignty.
Attack of Syngenta’s armed militia results in deaths and woundeds Brazil
21/10/2007 - Paraná. Syngenta has been hiring security services that act in irregular way on that region.
Update - October 2007
It is being painted a scenario announcing major step backs and restrictions to conquested rights.
TRANSGENIC POLLUTION IN BRAZIL - August 2007
The release of genetically modified crops denies farmers and consumers their right to fields and food that are free of transgenics. Here are three cases in point, all from western Paraná, in one of Brazil's major agricultural regions.
Update from the GM-Free Brazil Campaign, July 04, 2007
Judge orders CTNBio to obey the law and suspend release of GE corn
From inside CTNBio
During 15 months doctor Lia Giraldo, researcher at Fiocruz, joined CTNBio as a representative of the socioenvironmental movements. At the last meeting of the Commission she announced her resignation and presented an analysis on the way CTNBio has been working. Dr. Lia Giraldo's letter is a well worth reading to understand how government's political decisions are transformed into "technical decisions".
Update from the GM-Free Brazil Campaign, May 23, 2007.
Last Wednesday (05/16) the CNTBio approved the commercial release of Bayer's GM corn, by 17 votes to 5. Without the recent changes the government made to the law, there would have been no approval, as the number of necessary votes would have been 18. Now a simple majority of 14 out of 27 is enough.
Update from the GM-Free Brazil Campaign, May 03, 2007
We finally have good news from Brazil! For the first time in the history of the CTNBio (the National Technical Biosafety Commission) its regular meeting has been opened to outside observers. The most important direct result was that the commercial release of GM maize, on the agenda for immediate approval, has been postponed indefinitely.
Update from the GM-Free Brazil Campaign, March 29, 2007
At the public hearing held last week by the National Technical Biosafety Commission (CTNBio) to discuss the commercial release of several types of transgenic maize in Brazil it was clear that there is no safe basis for GM approvals in the country.
Federal Court suspends decision about Bayer's GM maize
In the afternoon of Dec 05, the Federal Court of Curitiba (Parana, Brazil) determined the suspension of "any deliberation regarding this process, until the Federal Government makes any statement”. The referred process is related to the commercial release of Bayer's herbicide-tolerant maize, genetically modified to tolerate gluphosinate.
Risky business
To influence the choice of scientists slated to make up the National Technical Biosafety Commission, several organizations, under the guise of promoting science, but funded and supported by the sector's leading multinationals, have been busy lobbying in Brasília. This article will introduce you to a few of them.
The fiasco of the Brazilian delegacy in Canada
June 03, 2005. Brazilian staff obstructs the negotiations at MOP2 and support a step back on the regulation of the international trade of GMOs