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GM Food: “Regulatory Vacuum” But Sale Not “Disallowed” says FSSAI

Yahoo Daily News 10 Aug 2018

Pawan Agarwal, the CEO of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), admits there is a “regulatory vacuum” governing food containing material from genetically-engineered (GE) plants ... FSSAI’s scientific committee has now made draft regulations for food containing GM material which will have to be approved by the government before the public comments are invited.Story Continues ... Read more on News by The Quint.GM Food....

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Roku Inc. (ROKU) CEO Anthony Wood on Q2 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha 09 Aug 2018

Roku Inc ... Executives ... Anthony Wood - Founder and CEO ... Scott Rosenberg - GM of Platform Business. Analysts ... Davidson ... I'm pleased to be joined on the call today with Anthony Wood, Roku's Founder and CEO; Steve Louden, our CFO; and Scott Rosenberg, the GM of our Platform Business, who will be available for Q&A. Please be sure to review our shareholder letter, which contains much more details than we will cover in the introductory remarks....

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Race to contain destructive march of armyworm as pest spreads to India

The Guardian 07 Aug 2018

... caterpillar’s spread in Africa, now fear that the food security of millions of people across Asia could be at risk if the armyworms are not contained ... The most popular methods of containing the pest include the use of GM crops and pesticides, said Day, but some armyworms have developed resistance to these tactics and are continuing to blight crops....

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32% of your packaged food products are genetically modified

The Times of India 06 Aug 2018

About 17% of the samples manufactured in India tested positive, all of which contained cottonseed oil ... As per the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, every package containing GM food shall bear ‘GM’ at the top of its principal display panel. As per Rule 6(7) of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, every package containing GM foods shall bear at the top of its principal display panel the letters ‘GM’....

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The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything

Information Clearing House 05 Aug 2018

For example, if General Motors were to come out and say that global warming is a hoax thought up by some liberal tree-huggers, people would suspect GM’s motives, since GM’s fortune is made by selling automobiles ... Now in the case of GM ... The IFIC wants to reassure the public of the safety of GM foods ... Instead, good PR for GM foods contains words like....

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GM foods need to be regulated to give consumers nutrition facts, not fiction

Hindustan Times 28 Jul 2018

FSSAI’s new draft Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2018, attempt to address the many gaps, including an amendment in 2013 to the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules that mandate that packages containing genetically modified foods print the words ‘GM’ on their principal display panel....

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Mumbai: Drugs worth over Rs 5 lakh seized, nine arrested

The Times of India 28 Jul 2018

MUMBAI ... There were nine men, all of African origin, inside. The police found that one of them had a polythene bag which contained 104 gm of cocaine and 9 gm of mephedrone ... ....

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Mum: Drugs worth over Rs 5 lakh seized, 9 held

The Times of India 28 Jul 2018

MUMBAI. Nine African-origin men were arrested in the city after cocaine was seized from their possession in the wee hours of Saturday, police said. A police patrolling team intercepted a vehicle on the Eastern Freeway in south Mumbai around 1 AM, said a senior official of the Anti-Narcotics Cell ... The police found that one of them had a polythene bag which contained 104 gm of cocaine and 9 gm of mephedrone ... RELATED. From around the web ... or....

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GM foods illegally sold, 21 of 65 items tested GM-positive: Study

DNA India 27 Jul 2018

The non-governmental organisation tested 65 randomly chosen food products and found that 32 per cent samples contained GM ingredients or were found to be GM-positive ... Baby food, edible oil, cereals and packaged snack food were the items that were GM-positive and these products were produced from or contained soya, cotton seed, corn or rapeseed ......

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CSE study finds large-scale illegal sale of genetically-modified processed food in India

Moneycontrol 27 Jul 2018

According to the the regulator, any food that has 5 percent or more of GM ingredients, should be labelled as such ... These are known GM crops of the world ... According to CSE, there were some products that declared themselves GM positive but lacked the requisite government approval. Also, some of the products containing GM ingredients were found to not have declared the same on their labels....

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Illegal, hazardous GM food jeopardise India's health, activists laments govt, regulators apathy

DNA India 27 Jul 2018

The coalition has slammed the Centre for actively jeopardising the health of all Indians by allowing illegal and hazardous GM foods on such a large scale in India ... This ministry, under the Legal Metrology Act, is supposed to implement a labelling regime for packaged foods containing GM foods. However, they have not done any implementation of the amended regulations so far, to let the consumer know if any food contains GM....

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CSE study finds GM presence in infant food, packaged snacks

The Hindu 26 Jul 2018

These products were produced from or contain soya, cottonseed, corn or rapeseed (canola), which are known GM crops of the world ... Meanwhile, the CSE study found that GM food contains foreign promoter and terminator genes. More than 90% of GM crops in the market contain promoter genes like 35S promoter of cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) and FMV promoter of figwort mosaic virus, and NOS terminator of Agrobacterium tumefaciens....

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‘32% of food products contain genetically modified ingredients’

Live Mint 26 Jul 2018

About one-third of locally available packaged and processed food, including imported edible oil, multigrain breakfast cereals and infant food, contain genetically modified (GM) ingredients, said a report by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Thursday ... contained GM ingredients,” said Sunita Narain, director general of CSE....

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