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persuade Australian bureaucrats to follow worldclass
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food safety standards being set in Europe…
and if they can’t, to withdraw New Zealand from the
trans-Tasman Food Standards Australia NZ.
National spokesman Jon
Carapiet says consumers and
exporters on both sides of the
Tasman are threatened with
the introduction of untested,
unlabelled genetically modified
food – including animal products
– because federal agencies
which should be protecting
Australasians have sided with
the biotech industry and propose
deregulation of a range of risky
new gene-editing techniques.
"This is the end game for food
safety that threatens to sabotage
New Zealand's export reputation,
close off our access to premium
markets, and undermine public
health," Carapiet says. The
Australian Federal Government
has asked the states to sign
off on regulatory changes
that would leave “risky new
GE techniques like CRISPR
unregulated,” Carapiet says.
“New Zealand's minister for
food safety must now ensure
that both governments make
the right decision – to regulate
all new GE techniques and their
products. The alternative is that
New Zealand pull out of FSANZ
and set out our own worldleading
food safety regime,"
Carapiet says. “The European
Union’s top court has ruled that
new GE techniques such as
CRISPR pose similar risks to
older, transgenic GM techniques
so must be assessed for safety
in the same way. The Australian
genetics authority OGTR and
FSANZ have relied on outdated
advice from scientists with
serious conflicts of interest to
reach their decision. If New
Zealand follows the lowest
common denominator safety
standards being proposed,
we will be self-sabotaging our
point of difference in the global
market place.”
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