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AUSTRALIA – Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is applying to the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) for permission to commercially cultivate genetically modified (GM) banana plants that have been engineered to withstand Fusarium wilt tropical race 4, popularly known as Panama disease. The GM banana plants are not intended to replace the Cavendish banana crop now grown in Australia; rather,…
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U.S – Researchers at the University of Kentucky, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) have created the first gene-edited calf with resistance to the bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), which costs the U.S. cattle industry billions of dollars every year. First discovered in the 1940s, BVDV is one of the…
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UGANDA – The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) with support from the Danish government has opened a 3rd Food Safety Testing Laboratory for the Western Region based in Mbarara City. To make sure that they fulfill the minimum quality standards before being put on the market, the Regional Food Safety Laboratories will offer conformity assessment services to Businesses and…
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KENYA – Several state agency officials have been placed in the spotlight after 20,000 bags of contaminated sugar that had been previously condemned allegedly found their way into the market. The 27 officials from the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), National Police Service (NPS), and Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) were suspended to pave way for…
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