A two-decade old international agreement on ensuring public scrutiny of decisions on the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will take effect in April after achieving enough ratifications, the UN said Tuesday.

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As part of the University of Waterloo’s program called Trust In Science, two Nobel Laureates will speak Tuesday evening about genetically modified food. GMO Foods were banned from many countries, but they are needed to help feed people in the Global South.

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A two-decade old international agreement on ensuring public scrutiny of decisions on  the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will take effect in April after achieving enough ratifications, the UN said Tuesday. Amid fears over the potential risks to human health and the environment posed by GMOs, a group of countries agreed in 2005 to spell out the right to participate in decisions around the release and commercialisation of the org…

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Geneva, 28 Jan (EFEverde).- United Nations announced that a new amendment to the Aarhus Convention will enter into force in April to require the adoption of transparency standards on genetically modified or transgenic organisms, identical to those already implemented for access to public information on the environment. On 20 January Ukraine announced the ratification of the amendment, so 33 States are already parties to the convention. This allo…

Ginebra, 28 ene (EFEverde).- Naciones Unidas anunció que una nueva enmienda a la Convención de Aarhus entrará en vigor en abril para obligar a adoptar estándares de transparencia sobre los organismos genéticamente modificados, o transgénicos, idénticos a los ya implementados para el acceso a información pública sobre medioambiente. El 20 de enero Ucrania anunció la ratificación de la enmienda, por lo que 33 Estados ya son parte de la convención.…

GMO scrutiny convention to start April 20: UN

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