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    Food quality

    Commenting on today's European Parliament vote to ban on the use of meat glue (bovine and/or porcine thrombin) in food (1), Carl Schlyter, Vice-president of the Environment Committee said: "We are happy that today the parliament banned the use of meat glue (Thrombin) in food. The Parliament was...
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    Novel food

    Commenting on today's vote on the Novel Food Regulation in the Environment Committee, Green MEP Martin Häusling said: "The research underlying the study 'Cloned farm animals' (1) concluded that cloning could have adverse health effects. Higher rates of infection, along with diseases and malfor...
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    Industrial emissions

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    Agro-Biotechnology

    Risks and consequences of the introduction of cloned animals for food production A Testbiotech Report prepared for Matin Häusling, MEP.
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    Falsified medicines and pharmacovigilance

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    GM maize and coexistence

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    Amflora potato

    Presidents of the EU Parliament's largest political groups today blocked a Greens/EFA request - supported by the GUE/NGL Group - for a debate on GMOs in next week's plenary session in Strasbourg. The request follows the EU Commission's decision to authorise cultivation of the gen...
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    Letter to Commissioner John Dalli on Amflora potato

    'Amflora' contains a gene which conveys resistance to antibiotics classified as 'critically important' and 'increasingly important' by the WHO and EMEA. Greens/EFA find it highly questionable that the Health Commissioner authorise a GM plant with an antibiotic marker gene, against the warning of the Authority under your responsibility, Eu…
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    GMOs

    The European Commission has issued the first new cultivation authorisation for a genetically-modified plant variety in 12 years, despite health and environment concerns. The resistance of one of its genes to medically-valuable antibiotics has been identified as a particular problem.
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    Delivering the Right to Health with the Health Millennium Development Goals

    The conference - co-organised by by the Greens/EFA, the European Parliamentary Forum and the Action for Global Health - provides the opportunity for civil society to work with European leaders to find concrete solutions. Europe must move towards full funding for health, stronger health systems and universal access to basic health care in …