The Norwegian GenØk - Centre for Biosafety, Third World Network (TWN) and the New Zealand INBI - Centre for Integrated Research in Biosafety announce the release of the Biosafety Assessment Tool, or BAT, developed as part of a large programme in capacity building for the assessment of the risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Germany became Tuesday the sixth European Union nation to ban a type of genetically-modified maize manufactured by US biotech giant Monsanto, the only GM crop permitted until now in the country.