But the agricultural university in Hyderabad preferred to do the trial, asking what the rationale was in doing a trial after the pest season, she adds. Kavitha notes how the regulators like genetic engineering approval committee (GEAC) do a bad job of functioning with around 92 applications processed in an hour. I was looking through some of the products on the shelves of the retail outlets. Jayalakshmi K talks to two experts who present the two sides of genetically modified crops. When...

The Ministry of Health advises persons in possession of these products, with the above brand names and product codes, to refrain from using them and to return them to the point of sale. The following brands and all varieties of frozen pot pie products, including chicken, turkey and beef, are subject to this recall: Persons who are immuno-compromised or on chemotherapy, as well as children are particularly susceptible to foodborne illnesses. These frozen pot pies may be linked to an...

Bassettbaby, the cribs' importer,has 85 reports of bolts loosening, including one report of a 13 month-old child's hand becoming entrapped between the railings. No one has been reported ill from the contamination, but the company has decided to expand the recall to three additional products mentioned above as a precaution. The recalled soups were shipped to 24 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri,...

He predicts the stock, which has risen by a third this year on its way to a fifth-straight annual increase, will gain 21 percent more. The European Commission, the 27-nation EU's regulatory arm, aims to allow cultivation of the potato in the bloc before year's end after national governments were split. BASF's super tuber will join about 15 gene-altered products the EU has authorized since 2004 when the trading bloc ended a six-year moratorium after introducing tight labeling rules and...

Critics of the nation's food safety system say that it is too fragmented and marked by overlapping authority, and they say that may help explain why dangerous foods keep slipping through and why contamination scares are handled in sometimes inconsistent ways. Critics of the nation's food safety system say that it is too fragmented and marked by overlapping authority, and they say that may help explain why dangerous foods keep slipping through and why contamination scares are handled in...