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New GMO - Upsetting decisions for the industry

A minority of the world’s economically powerful states have decided to relax the rules for GMOs produced by new genetic modification techniques. Others have explicitly decided that these GMOs must be subject to GMO regulation. This is the case of New Zealand and South Africa. However, the decisions taken by these two countries are facing pressure from the agribusiness.

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Burkina Faso - The Target Malaria project continues despite irregularities

In July 2021, the National Biosafety Agency (ANB) of Burkina Faso authorized Target Malaria, a project that fights against malaria, to import transgenic mosquito eggs. A first release took place in 2019, in the locality of Bana. This article intends to show the numerous regulatory irregularities of the project first phase.

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