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Posting date: November 16, 2009
On Going Concerns About Harmonisation of Biosafety Regulations in Africa
This briefing warns of the dangers lurking in the AU’s Biosafety Stategy with regard to proposed biosafety harmonisation processes that involve several players that raises concern.
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Posting date: October 22, 2007
Regulation of GMOs in South Africa
This paper is written in light of the coming into effect of the Genetically Modified Organisms Amendment Act (No. 23 of 2006).(ii), 10 years after the ‘GMO Act’ became part of the body of post-apartheid statutes in South Africa.
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Posting date: July 05, 2005
Model National Biosafety Law
A law to provide for the regulation of the import, deliberate release into the environment, placing on the market, and the contained use of GMOs and products thereof.
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Posting date: March 21, 2005
GM battle in danger of trampling Africa
Tewolde Egziabher argues that developing nations must put in place biosafety systems based on the precautionary principle, and develop the capacity - no matter how costly - to deal with the risks of genetically modified crops.
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Posting date: March 01, 2005
Model Law for Safety in Biotechnology for Africa
First drafted by the OAU and the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority, the African Model Law for Biosafety was designed in order that countries in Africa could adopt it in their law as they move towards the implementation of the Biosafety Protoco
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Posting date: March 24, 2004
AU Expert Group Calls for Moratorium on GMOs
A group of African experts convened under the auspices of the African Union took a first and critically important step towards laying the groundwork for common African policies on issues concerning GE.
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