Often there was ‘all-clear’ signal however after the test results

After the first confirmed cases of pig flu infections in the Free State the Bavarian authorities try to prevent a spreading of the illness. “The situation is very, very serious”, said ministers of health Markus Söder (CSU) on Wednesday. A goal is it according to Ministry data to minimize the introduction of the virus.

In Germany are so far three humans at the pig flu get sick. With 22 years an old woman in Hamburg, a 37-jährigen woman from Kulmbach as well as a man, which are treated in Regensburg, would have been confirmed, communicated the suspected cases on the new flu A/H1N1 the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Wednesday in Berlin.

To their conference Food and Democracy demanded the genetic engineering-free regions in Europe a European Union-far moratorium for the permission and the commercial cultivation of genetically changed organisms (GVO). In their final declaration they requested the Agro genetic engineering companies not to abuse the hunger problem longer in order to justify the introduction from GVO to.
In Europe there are at present to 196 regions, 93 provinces and 4567 municipalities, which explained their territory publicly as genetic engineering-free zones. In Germany there is 188 initiatives, which cover together a cultivated area of over one million hectare. The genetic engineering-free regions of Europe meet each year to a conference, this mark on the last April weekend in Luzern. Under the slogan Food and Democracy discussed it the right and the possibilities of the population of determining even the quality of the food which is cultivated on their plate to come and in their region.
After six European Union member states forbade the cultivation of MON810 and the number of the genetic engineering-free regions in all of Europe increases rapidly, the instant for a moratorium is as favorable as never, is called it in the final declaration. The time is to be used,
to consider around the European Union legislation and the regional self-determination too
strengthen.
in order to specify the risk evaluation in the sense of the precaution principle again.
also socio-economic effects are to be included.
to promote around a genetic engineering-free and various agriculture and those
To place nourishing sovereignty surely.

Agriculture minister Ilse Aigner (CSU) approved the cultivation of attempt of the genetically altered potato Amflora of BASF. It may be cultivated under intensified safety precautions on 20 hectares in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The gene tuber thought for the industrial use exhibits a higher strength content.
So far the European Union did not approve the commercial cultivation of Amflora. Because the tuber contains an antibiotic resistance as marker gene. There is the risk that the antibiotic resistance of the plant on bacteria can turn into, humans or animal dangerously will could. Already Aigners predecessor Horst Seehofer had nevertheless approved the wide cultivation of attempt of Amflora. Of it the current Bavarian Prime Minister wants to know however nothing more. It gives now the genetic engineering critic and rejects outdoor exposure tests.
With the cultivation of attempt in the last years it had come to irregularities. After the harvest remaining gene tubers on the fields for game animals and humans were freely accessible. Some tubers wintered and drove out in the year after. The minister demanded therefore that the potatoes might arrive neither in the life or animal feed cycle nor into the environment. In addition they are to be cultivated only on a surface by 20 hectares instead of the originally planned 40 hectares. The BASF must enclose the field.
Further information to Amflora

After permission by the Federal Department of Agriculture Müritz is to be begun with the cultivation of the disputed gene potato sort Amflora on Monday in Bütow in the district. Like the owner of the property Bütow, Karl Heinrich Niehoff, on Tuesday on communicated, wants he strip packing-inquires on approximately 20 hectares the genetically changed potatoes to yield.

After the pig flu suspected cases in Bavaria the state government furnished a crisis committee. “The situation is very seriously to take”, stressed ministers of health Markus Söder (CSU) on Tuesday in Munich. Meanwhile there was ‘all-clear’ signal after information of the newspaper “Augsburger general one” with one of the two suspected cases in Bavaria already.

With one of the suspected cases on pig flu in Bavaria there is obviously ‘all-clear’ signal. How “Augsburger general one” reported on Tuesday in a Vorabmeldung, a rapid test had not confirmed the suspicion on the flu with a Mexico holiday-maker from the area Donauwörth.

A new food safety guide designed for marae cooks will be officially launched at Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawahia tomorrow. The New Zealand Food Safety Authority guide, named Te Kai Manawa Ora, provides up-to-date advice on food safety.

According to estimate of the European Commission the economic crisis leads in the meantime to unparalleled break-downs in all industrial sectors of Europe. “Complete are extent and speed of the crisis” again, said industrial commissioner Günter Verheugen after information “Financial Times Germany” (expenditure for Thursday), as it an internal…