Saudi Bans Import of GM Foods

[geno@zap.a2000.nl]

On 4 Aug 2000, at 7:38, jim wrote:


http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000803/hl/food_gm_1.html

Thursday August 3 5:34 PM ET
 Saudi Bans Import of GM Foods

 RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has banned the import of 
foodstuffs
containing genetically
 modified ingredients, including soya bean oil, a newspaper reported
 on
Thursday.

 The al-Eqtisadiah daily quoted Commerce Minister Osama bin 
Jaafar
 Faqih
as saying the decision
 was taken due to lack of agreement among several countries on 
whether
to allow the import and
 export of produce which had been genetically treated.

 The minister said there was also no agreement on technical,
 operational
and legal measures
 regulating international trade of genetically modified foodstuffs.

 In March, Saudi Arabia said it had obtained information that soya
 bean
oil from Thailand had
 been made from genetically modified seeds.


----
For instructions on joining, leaving, or otherwise using the Ban-GEF
list, send email to Ban-GEF@lists.txinfinet.com with HELP in the
SUBJECT line.  

Search the archives (since '97) at http://www.txinfinet.com/ban-gef/,
or go to a recent day's digest at
http://www.txinfinet.com/ban-gef/00/.  Updated weekly. ----