The Supreme Court has issued a writ of Kalikasan stopping the commercial release of genetically modified rice and eggplant products. | T2TupasINQ
SC ordered respondents to the Department of Agriculture , Department of Environment and Natural Resources , Department of Health , Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the DA, the Philippine Rice Research Institute, and the University of the Philippines-Los Baños to file a verified return within 10 days from service.
The group also wants the government to perform independent risks and impact assessments, obtain the prior and informed consent of farmers and indigenous peoples, and implement liability mechanisms in case of damage.They said the Golden Rice, which is patented to Syngenta, a transnational agrochemical corporation, is modified rice by inserting a gene from maize and a gene from bacteria found in the soil allowing the plant to biosynthesize beta-carotene in the edible parts of rice.
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