2012-05-08
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Researchers in Denmark are preparing to carry out comparative feed studies to investigate the real world impact of GM soya in a batch of production pigs. The two 100-strong groups will have a diet of barley and wheat, with GM soya for the control group and non-GM for the test group. The test period is fairly short, since the pigs will be aged about six months at slaughter, when they will weigh around 110kg. A longer study involving breeding animals is not envisaged until the current project has been evaluated, lead researcher Niels Kjeldsen told ARC.
2012-03-12
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European Union ministers are unlikely to agree draft rules to let countries decide themselves whether to grow or ban genetically modified crops, despite efforts by Denmark’s EU presidency to reach a compromise. [...] ”Things are still looking extremely difficult,” Danish Environment Minister Ida Auken, who will lead the discussions, told Reuters by telephone on Thursday. ”We have a small blocking minority at the moment, but we still hope that we will dissolve it, and it’s going to come down to one or two countries in the end.” While France, Germany and Belgium are unlikely to reverse their opposition, Britain and Spain had initially appeared willing to support the Danish compromise, EU sources involved in the talks said.
2012-03-01
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Continued opposition from a number of member states, including France and Germany, to changes to rules on the cultivation of genetically modified crops could force the Danish EU Presidency to abandon its efforts to reach a compromise at the Environment Council, on 9 March. At a meeting of the member states’ permanent representatives, on 28 February, the blocking minority of France, Germany, Sweden and Belgium said the compromise proposals from the Danish Presidency were legally unsound, could renationalise GMO approvals and disrupt the internal market.
2009-09-22
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The WWF report Industrial biotechnology – more than green fuel in a dirty economy?, which has been published today, concludes that industrial biotechnology can provide dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and provide strong progress toward a green and sustainable economy. WWF calls for increased political backing for the industry to leverage the positive environmental effects. The findings are based on peer-reviewed research from Novozymes, the world leader in bioinnovation, as well as contributions from experts and WWF.
2009-09-21
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Today, GMO crops are grown on 8% of the world’s agricultural soil, and GMOs have potentials regarding climate and environment. These are the conclusions of a new report from the Danish Food Ministry The Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries has released a report on GMO’s showing that the production of genetically modified (GM) crops has the potential to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2. The report also shows that GMOs are a promising way of producing plants that are more resistant towards changes in climate conditions.
2009-09-16
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AlphaSoy® is the name of Agro Korns newest soy concept. [...] For the time being AlphaSoy® PIG 530 is the most important variant in the AlphaSoy® series. [...] AlphaSoy® PIG 530 is produced from not genetically modified soy beans.
2009-06-23
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The Danish government thinks that genetically modified organisms may be the way to feed the increasing world population. Danes are going to have to get used to their cows chewing away at genetically modified maize and soya beans, at least if the Danish Minister for Food Eva Kjær Hansen (Lib) could decide. The minister wants to make it much easier to get approval for GMO products – initially GMO feed, in order to help the world’s starving millions.
2009-04-08
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New initiative by Novozymes and WWF sets out to map how and where low carbon biosolutions can eliminate the first billion tonnes of CO 2 and pave the way to a green economy. [...] The biotechnology industry is such an opportunity because the reductions secured by biotech solutions greatly outnumbers the emissions from its production.
2009-01-19
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The study showed that special incentives are required in order to get farmers to change their spraying behaviour enough to achieve a positive effect on biodiversity. Unsurprisingly, an important requirement is that the change is profitable. Apart from that, GT crops also meet with practical barriers including the need for them to fit into the existing crop system.
There are also attitude barriers. There is significant scepticism with regard to accepting the rise in weed population that results from growing GT crops and spraying so late in the season that a positive effect on biodiversity is achieved. This applies even if the late spraying is not a problem with regard to crop yield.
2008-11-13
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As was expected the tests in Serbia did not produce a positive result (none of the plants changed colours to red when growing in proximity to TNT-infected soil) and as the company explained at its general meeting, further development of the plant is assessed to last 2-3 years. aresa is now left with patented technologies that have not been validated. This makes the value of the patents highly uncertain, and the technology represents value only if the biotech activities continue in some form. aresa has booked goodwill in relation to the patents of DKK 13,4m, which is now at risk of being written down to DKK 0.
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