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| | Organic food - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Certified organic foods are not substantially genetically modified. | | | Organic food is, in general, food produced without the use of artificial pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and in many definitions genetically modified organisms (GMOs). | | | Organic food is seen as avoiding relieving these concerns by prohibiting such practices. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food
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| | genetic engineering |
| | Published on the Web by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in 2002, this technical report looks at the FSA project on evaluating the risks associated with using genetically modified organisms in human foods. | | | Published in 2004 by the National Academies Press, this book was prepared by the Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health, which comes under the auspices of the US National Research Council. | | | It provides an "independent assessment of consumer opinion on the acceptability of GM food and how this relates to consumer choice". |
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http://agrifor.ac.uk/browse/cabi/6bcc87edc62975ca66a03251a4f058c0.html
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| | Labelling of gen-food products |
| | Foods and food ingredients derived from genetically modified soy or maize must be labelled if the new protein or DNA has been detected in the end product intended for consumption. | | | In their opinion, many foods are excluded from the labelling requirements, information about the use of genetic engineering is insufficient, and genetically modified foods are distributed secretly. | | | The position of processing aids such as enzymes is not clearly defined in the Novel Food Regulation. |
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http://www.bfa-ernaehrung.de/Bfe-Deutsch/Information/deutsch/genlabe.htm
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| | 97/618/EC: SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION for Novel Foods and Ingredients |
| | This class comprises foods and food components that are single chemically defined substances or mixtures of these which are not obtained from plants, animals or microorganisms that have been genetically modified. | | | This implies a broader strategy in which representatives of relevant food classes, processed by the novel food process, should be compared either to untreated counterparts or to counterparts which have been processed in a related traditional manner. | | | As a general principle of assessment, the immunological reactivity of individuals who react to the traditional food counterpart should be tested in vitro and in vivo against the NF. |
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/~sible/biolawsource/source16.htm
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| | US FDA/CFSAN - Biotechnology |
| | Genetically Modified Foods: Experts View Regimen of Safety Tests as Adequate, but FDA's Evaluation Process Could Be Enhanced GAO-02-566, May 23, 2002 | | | Association for Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) Millenium Conference June 19, 2000 Presentation -- FDA's Policy on Genetically Modified Food | | | Food and Drug Administration cover letter regarding their findings concerning StarLink |
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http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/biotechm.html
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| | BBC - Food - Food matters - Organic food |
| | The organic movement aims for food that is produced as 'naturally' as possible, free from trans-fats, GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and most additives. | | | Organic food is produced according to a set of principles and standards concerning such issues as pesticides, additives, animal welfare and sustainability. | | | Organic farmers and food producers command a higher price because of the label and not necessarily because their produce is well-made and tasty. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/food_matters/organicfood.shtml
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| | Save Organic Food |
| | If you tell your friends about the effort to Save Organic Food, and they tell their friends, who in turn tell their friends, etc., etc., we will be successful in putting enough pressure on the U.S. Congress to address the issue of organic contamination from GMOs. | | | It was the first time a food manufacturer had to pull a product because of genetic contamination. | | | In addition to putting the purity of organic foods at risk, genetic contamination is raising the price of organic foods. |
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http://www.saveorganicfood.org
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| | Student Voices |
| | Since then, my eyes have been opened to the important role that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) play in regards to food security. | | | Through my studies, I have learned that one of the most important and critical problems facing many third world countries is the lack of adequate food. | | | I was a student participant in the first World Food Prize Youth Institute in 1994 as a freshman in high school. |
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http://www.iptv.org/studentvoices/shows.cfm?ProgramID=6&BroadBand=yes
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| | WHO/Europe - Food safety - Home |
| | Emerging problems, such as contamination from acrylamide or dioxins, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), avian flu and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are creating additional concerns among both the public and decision-makers. | | | WHO releases report from study on the implications of GMOs and food products for human health and development | | | Food contamination is very common, even in the most developed countries, and foodborne diseases (e.g. |
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http://www.euro.who.int/foodsafety
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| | Genetically Engineered Food |
| | That is, as well as scientific debates on the merits of genetically engineered food, there are equally, if not more important, debates on the socioeconomic ramifications of the way such science is marketed and used. | | | A biosafety treaty signed in 2000 allows for the regulation of transport and release of genetically modified organisms. | | | The problem of food shortages is a political and economic problem. |
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http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GEFood.asp
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| | Feeding the Future, From Fat To Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crises |
| | Their examples of ingenuity encompass emerging technologies, business models for sustainable food production, and solutions to the world's obesity epidemic, and they debate the merits of controversial techniques such as the use of genetically modified organisms. | | | By offering useful, workable solutions to the problems of food, Feeding the Future is satisfying one of our most pressing needs. | | | Food and Society Policy Fellow Anna Lappé contributed a chapter to the recently-released book Feeding The Future, From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crises, edited by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon. |
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http://www.foodandsocietyfellows.org/library/uploadedFiles/Feeding_the_Future_From_Fat_To_Famine_How_to_S.htm
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| | New Scientist Special Report on GM Organisms |
| | Famine-struck Zambia is still rejecting food aid - and all because of a policy on genetically modified foods drawn up years ago in Britain | | | Researchers say doing the same for farm animals will mean healthier food for people and keep the livestock well too | | | A government-backed delegation concludes that GM food is too risky - aid workers say the decision means people will go hungry |
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/gm-food
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| | Organic food |
| | Organic farming is the production of food without the use of synthetic chemicals or genetically modified components. | | | Others appreciate that organic foods promote a healthier and more sustainable use of the environment, and more humane treatment of animals. | | | Also, some people worry about the possible long term health, economic and environmental consequences of GM foods and prefer to support an industry that doesn't use GM techniques. |
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http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Organic_food?OpenDocument
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| | SCADPlus: Novel foods and novel food ingredients |
| | Food and food ingredients falling within the scope of the Regulation and which contain genetically modified organisms are the subject of a special procedure which emphasises the assessment of environmental risk. | | | The authorisation decision defines the scope of the authorisation and specifies, as appropriate, the conditions of use, the designation of the food or food ingredient, its specification and the specific labelling requirements. | | | Foods and food ingredients must not present a danger for the consumer, mislead him/her or be nutritionally disadvantageous for him/her. |
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http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l21119.htm
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| | Slow Food - E-Files - Sierra Club |
| | The Slow Food point of view has received some dramatic validation as food producers and consumers in Europe have dealt with mad cow disease, an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, and serious concerns about genetically modified foods. | | | Slow Food's Ark of Taste project seeks to identify and publicize endangered foods such as the Piedmont cow and Moselle red peaches, and to encourage people to seek them out, on the theory that if the market demands, supply will increase. | | | The Slow Food movement began in Italy in 1986 as a direct response to the opening of a fast-food hamburger restaurant in the heart of Rome. |
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http://www.sierraclub.org/e-files/slow_food.asp
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| | Don't Panic Eat Organic |
| | GM crop DNA found in human gut bugs For the first time, it has been proved that bacteria in the human gut can take up DNA from genetically modified food. | | | Eating organic food may help reduce your risk of heart attacks, strokes and cancer. | | | the more you can control food and medicine." |
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http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
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| | All News |
| | Many parents buy organic baby food because they are concerned about the pesticides, hormone, antibiotics or genetically modified food present in conventional baby food. | | | Objective 1: Develop and revise guidance for processors that manufacture or prepare ready-to-eat foods and develop or revise guidance for retail and food service and institutional establishments. | | | Golden Eagle Smoked Foods Inc. recalls smoked salmon for possible Listeria |
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http://www.foodconsumer.org
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| | CNN.com - Food frights mount in Europe - March 13, 2001 |
| | Even without BSE or foot-and-mouth disease, Europeans were already digesting the debate over the safety of genetically modified foods. | | | The fallout over gene-altered foods such as corn, rapeseed and soy has prompted many supermarkets to take a pre-emptive strike by voluntarily pulling such products from their shelves. | | | Food scares have often crossed the Atlantic, for instance when Europeans slapped a ban on imports of U.S. beef treated with growth hormones. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/02/27/food.crises/index.html
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| | Novel Food Task Force |
| | It has published a series of papers - including Concise Monographs on food biotechnology and genetic modification technology and food, and scientific articles on safety assessment of novel foods, safety assessment of viable genetically modified microorganisms, and safety considerations of DNA in food. | | | This Task Force reviews how novel foods, new food ingredients and new processing techniques should be evaluated from scientific, safety and nutritional standpoints. | | | The task force will now address Post Launch Monitoring (current opinions, limitations and values), elaborate a state-of-the-art on History of Safe Use and discuss safety assessment for nutritionally enhanced foods. |
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http://europe.ilsi.org/index.cfm?pubentityid=112
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| | Genetic Engineering Network |
| | All over the world, people are campaigning against genetically modified food, human and animal genetic engineering, and the bio-tech companies who are increasing their control over our lives and our environment. | | | Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of atoms and molecules, is rapidly converging with biotech and information technology to radically change food and agricultural systems. | | | Biotech IMC is an issue based Indymedia site dedicated to news on biotechnology and genetic engineering in agriculture, food, medicine as well as its relevance to globalisation. |
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http://www.geneticsaction.org.uk
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| | List of sustainableagriculture topics - (Health Article) |
| | Food - conventional food - genetically modified food - organic food -local food | | | Food and agricultural policy - Biosafety- chronictoxicity - Slow Food - Arkof taste - food quality | | | Garden - List ofgardens - List of organic gardeningtopics - Grass - Forestgardening - Gardening - wildgarden - indoor garden - water-wise gardening - List ofvegetables - Vegetable farming - Allotment (gardening) - edible schoolyard - indoor garden |
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http://health.afreepress.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=186334&cp=127974
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| | AgBiotechNet |
| | A giant turkey-shaped "card", feathered with the protests of thousands of people from the UK, was delivered to the US Embassy on the 24th November to highlight the ongoing dispute between the US and EU over genetically modified (GM) food and... | | | A working paper released by the World Bank Research Department suggests that a difference in the comparative advantage of the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops "may be sufficient" to explain the trans-Atlantic difference in GM... | | | Americans pay little attention to genetically modified foods, have difficulty separating fact from fiction when it comes to the science behind them and are willing to believe unsubstantiated rumors about them. |
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http://www.agbiotechnet.com/topics/Database/GMfood/gmfood.asp
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| | Pathfinder Genetically Modified Food |
| | Who would benefit from genetically modified food, the consumer or the producer? | | | SUBJECT HEADINGS and SEE ALSO REFERENCES: Genetically modified foods; Food--Biotechnology; Crops--Genetic engineering; Plant genetic engineering; Transgenic plants | | | What are the possible dangers of genetically modified food? |
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http://ucl.broward.edu/pathfinders/Genetically_Modified_Food.htm
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| | genetically modified food GREENPEACE UK |
| | Genetically modified food scientists are altering life itself - artificially modifying genes to produce new plants and animals. | | | The products of their labours are already present in the food we eat and the fields around us, even though little is known about the long-term effects of genetically modified food on human health and the environment. | | | Any food with ingredients from corn, soya, oilseed rape, or cottonseed - including soya and maize derivatives such as lecithin, soy oil, soy proteins, maize syrup and cornstarch - is likely to contain genetically modified organisms. |
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http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/gp_gm_food/genetically_modified_food.cfm
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| | Genetically Modified Food |
| | The Australia and New Zealand Food Authority is advertising its call for the comment on applications of 13 genetically modified foods on 3rd Nov, 1999, including pesticide-tolerant sugarbeet, corn and canola. | | | Genetically modified food in the crosshairs - OverPopulation.com News, 17/5/99 | | | Genetically Modified Food will soon be in the supermarket here. |
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http://www.irysec.vic.edu.au/sci/genefood/genefood.htm
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| | FSANZ: GM Foods |
| | Food Standard ( Standard 1.5.2) - foods produced using gene technology- regulates the sale of genetically modified foods in Australia and New Zealand and was incorporated into the Food Standards Code on 13 May 1999 and in an amended form on 7 December 2000. | | | Ministers also resolved to exempt ingredients from GM labelling where they contain up to 1% of genetically modified material but only where its presence is unintended. | | | The submission is concerned with providing factual background information on FSANZ, its statutory processes and the regulation of genetically modified foods in Australia and New Zealand. |
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http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/whatsinfood/gmfoods/index.cfm
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| | E F S A European Food Safety Authority |
| | The GM 1507 maize was assessed with reference to its intended use employing the appropriate principles as described in the Guidance Document of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms for the Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Plants and Derived Food and Feed published by EFSA*. | | | Within the framework of Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms, applications for the placing on the market of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are transmitted to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) following a request for an opinion by the European Commission. | | | Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 on genetically modified food and feed applies to applications for the placing on the market in the territory of the European Union of the following products: GMOs for food and feed use and food and feed containing GMOs, consisting of such organisms or produced from GMOs. |
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http://www.efsa.eu.int/press_room/press_release/828_en.html
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| | Genetically Engineered Food: Biotech, Biotechnology, gmo, genetically modified |
| | keyword issues: genetically engineered food, Genetically Modified Organism (GMO), mad cow, CJD, BSE (mad cow disease), organic food, permaculture, BGH, genetically engineered, bovine growth hormone, animal cloning, plant cloning, food labeling, food contamination, pesticide, animal feed, organic farms, food safety, food irradiation, activism, anti-globalization, grassroots, fair trade and fair trade coffee. | | | 7/3 - Genetically Modified Corn Study Reveals Health Damage and Cover-Up | | | 8/19 - Scientists Warn of Genetically Modified Superweed Risk |
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http://www.organicconsumers.org/gelink.html
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| | The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods |
| | In Europe, genetically engineered foods are more commonly referred to as genetically modified foods, genetically altered foods or GMOs (short for genetically modified organisms). | | | Mail a letter to your U.S. House Representative asking him or her to co-sponsor the soon-to-be-introduced bill, the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act." We have created a form letter for you. | | | The only thing stopping the Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act from being passed into law is that members of the U.S. Congress need to hear from many more concerned citizens like you. |
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http://www.thecampaign.org
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