GMO news related to Malaysia

05.05.2008 |

Malaysian Government does not allow release of GE mosquitoes

The Health Ministry will not allow the release of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in Pulau Ketam, Selangor in a bid to combat the dengue scourge. Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said the ministry would conduct another study to find other ways of carrying out the research, which is being conducted by the Institute of Medical Research (IMR) and a company partly owned by the University of Oxford. [...] Liow said the ministry would consider the views of residents near Pulau Ketam, an island 30 minutes by boat from Port Klang.

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