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Reuters | December 21, 1999 TOKYO - Nisshin Flour Milling Co Ltd, Japan's largest flour miller, said yesterday it will stop using ingredients produced from genetically modified (GM) corn and soybeans in its flour products for home use by the end of next February.

The British Times | December 28, 1999 Craig Sams, (President), Whole Earth Ltd,, writes that Professor Beringer (report, December 23) says that opponents of GM food are consigning billions to hunger and starvation and calls for more government funding for GM crop research. The main cause of starvation in the world is poverty.

Kyodo World Service | December 31, 1999 | By Jackie Woods SYDNEY - Disease-resistant wheat, seedless oranges, vitamin-boosted rice and potatoes that do not go brown are just some of a raft of gene-altered crops currently being field-tested by scientists hoping to boost the yield and quality of Australia's agricultural produce.

PA News | By Sam Greenhill, PA News Genetically modified food has been banned at GM giant Monsanto's own staff canteen, it emerged today. Managers in charge of catering at the company's UK headquarters in High Wycombe, Bucks, said they took the decision "in response to concern raised by our customers".

Reuters | December 22, 1999 PRAGUE - The Czech government was cited as approving a draft law on the regulation of genetically modified (GM) foods on Wednesday which would require state licensing of any GM product.

Novartis | December 22, 1999

New York Times | December 23, 1999 | By GINA KOLATA Scientists in Oregon report today that they had installed jellyfish genes in monkey embryos, using a technique that might eventually be used to create monkeys with added human genes. Such a technique would allow those genes to be studied for the development of treatments for human diseases.

Nature | December 23, 1999 | volume 402, page 846 | DAVID BARTRUFF/CORBIS Keeping it 'natural': The Japanese public are growing hostile towards GM food.