Publication archives

REUTERS | November 2, 1999 | Story by Aya Takada TOKYO - Japanese have recently bought corn and soybeans grown exclusively from non genetically modified (GM) seeds, at premiums roughly 40-50 percent higher than those for mixed GM and non-GM crops, traders said.

Times Colonist (Victoria) | November 3, 1999 Columnist Susan Riley writes that you can see the outlines of a new moral and political struggle - the next generation's tobacco wars, perhaps - in simmering public unease over the use of genetically modified foods.

Manitoba Co-operator | November 4, 1999 | Laura Rance

PRNewswire | November 3, 1999

New York Times | November 3, 1999 | By CAROL KAESUK YOON For most of the 30 years Bernie Thiel has been growing squash, he has battled an invisible but potent adversary: viruses that can turn his neat rows of sunny-yellow vegetables into a mottled, sickly green harvest.

The Herald | October 27, 1999 | By CRAIG SKEHAN, Herald Correspondent in Bangkok Thai authorities are struggling to protect billions of dollars worth of exports as countries with restrictions or bans on genetically modified crops start to reject Thai food products.

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Dow Jones | October 31, 1999 TOKYO - About two-thirds of major food producers polled by The Nihon Keizai Shimbun are, according to this story, considering a switch to non-genetically modified ingredients because labeling of GM foods will be required from April 2001, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported in its Monday morning edition.