Publication archives

April 25, 2000 / Reuters WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Agriculture Department was cited as saying Tuesday that healthy trees in some residential neighborhoods and public areas in Chicago and New York will be treated with an insecticide to control the spread of the destructive Asian long-horned beetle.

April 23, 2000 / Lake House COLOMBO (Lankapuvath) -- Sri Lanka's Food Advisory Committee has, according to a Senior Health Ministry Official cited in this story, issued instructions to all relevant authorities including the Sri Lanka Customs to prevent the imports of genetically modified foods.

April 24, 2000 / from a press release

THE HINDU / Tuesday, April 25, 2000 / By Our Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI, APRIL 24. The Centre today informed the Supreme Court that it would take steps within two months to challenge in a court in the United States, the patent granted to an American company for `basmati' rice.

April 25, 2000 / The New York Times / Andrew Pollack

April 23, 2000 / Lake House COLOMBO (Lankapuvath) -- Sri Lanka's Food Advisory Committee has, according to a Senior Health Ministry Official cited in this story, issued instructions to all relevant authorities including the Sri Lanka Customs to prevent the imports of genetically modified foods.

Supermarket News / April 10, 2000 PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Shareholders of Safeway here next month will vote on a proposal to label -- and eventually remove -- all genetically engineered products or ingredients sold under its brand names and private labels.

April 24, 2000 / The Kitchener-Waterloo Record / Jim Romahn Elbert van Donkersgoed of Guelph, who serves a policy guru for the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario, argues that a voluntary labelling system for genetically-modified foods ought to narrow its focus to the new technologies that manipulate genes, and exclude the older technologies.