{"id":10789,"date":"2013-10-02T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10789"},"modified":"2013-10-02T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:38:21","slug":"russia-considers-ban-om-gmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10789","title":{"rendered":"Russia considers ban om GMO’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mielie\"<\/a>As one of the few nations in the world with a\u00a0GMO-free platform, Russia does not allow any cultivation of GMOs for commercial purposes. Their regulatory agencies recently suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage. The Russian Prime Minister has now ordered the same agencies to consider a possible ban on all GMO imports into Russia.<\/p>\n

The Russian Federal Environmental Assessment Commission has not adopted any commercialized GM varieties for agricultural use.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0recent decision\u00a0by the Russians to suspend authorisation for American GM corn threatens to trigger a transatlantic commercial and diplomatic row.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0growing body of scientific research\u00a0– done mostly in Europe, Russia, and other countries \u2013 showing that diets containing engineered corn or soya cause serious health problems in laboratory mice and rats.<\/p>\n

Experts at the University of Caen\u00a0conducted an experiment running for the full lives of rats\u00a0– two years.<\/p>\n

The findings, which were peer reviewed by independent experts before being published in a respected scientific journal, found raised levels of breast cancer, liver and kidney damage.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s consumer rights watchdog and Health Ministry, Rospotrebnadzor, announced one year ago that it had suspended the import and use of the Monsanto GM corn.<\/p>\n

Now, the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the relevant agencies to consider a possible ban of all imports into Russia of products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by October 15.<\/p>\n

The order is addressed to Rospotrebnadzor, the Agriculture Ministry, and the Trade and Economic Development Ministry. They have been ordered to \u201csubmit proposals on amendments to the Russian legislation aimed at tightening control over the turnover of products containing components obtained from GMOs together with the relevant federal executive bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The aforementioned agencies are also ordered to submit proposals \u201con the possibility of banning the import of such products into the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/p>\n

A list of the prime minister\u2019s orders was drawn up to fulfill the presidential orders issued after the meeting on the socio-economic development of the Rostov region held on September 18. Medvedev\u2019s orders have been posted on the government website, Interfax news agency reported last September 25.<\/p>\n

Russia is currently taking a hard line on GMOs \u2014 in August the first independent project for identifying whether Russian farmers are growing illegal GM crops started in the Belgorod region.<\/p>\n

NAGS (The National Association for Genetic Safety) conducted the first checks of agricultural crops for the presence of GMOs. No GMO plants were found in any Belgorod fields.<\/p>\n

According to the current law, 19 GM lines are allowed in foodstuffs, but the cultivation of GMOs is not allowed.<\/p>\n

After joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Russia is being pressured simplify the procedure for registration of genetically modified products, seed and feed, to stop their safety checks, and to stop controls over their distribution.<\/p>\n

Glyphosate is the world\u2019s top selling herbicide, and Monsanto\u2019s formulations Roundup is used with more than 80 percent of all genetically modified (GM) crops grown globally. But evidence of its extreme toxicity has been emerging within the past decade. Glyphosate was found to kill human placental cells at concentrations below that recommended for agricultural use and approved by our regulators, while Roundup was lethal at even lower concentrations.<\/p>\n

The toxic effects of Roundup (R400) begin at 5 ppm, and the first endocrine disrupting action is already evident at 0.5 ppm, 800 times lower than the level of 400 ppm authorized by the US Environment Protection Agency in food or feed.<\/p>\n

Denmark has imposed widespread bans on the spraying of glyphosate in response to research showing that the sprays have been contaminating the countrys groundwater.<\/p>\n

The chemical has, against all expectations sieving down through the soil and polluting the ground water at a rate of five times more than the allowed level for drinking water, according to tests done by the Denmark and Greenland Geological Research Institution (DGGRI).<\/p>\n

A decade ago, the Danish environment minister Hans Christian Schmidt announced unprecedented restrictions on glyphosate, the country\u2019s and Europe\u2019s most widely used herbicide. – wakingtimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As one of the few nations in the world with a\u00a0GMO-free platform, Russia does not allow any cultivation of GMOs for commercial purposes. Their regulatory agencies recently suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage. The Russian Prime Minister has now … Continue reading “Russia considers ban om GMO’s”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[6633,66],"class_list":["post-10789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-gmo-free-platform","tag-russia"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mielie.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10792,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions\/10792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}