Protect biodiversity from living modified organisms at MOP5 in Nagoya! Read updates here: Nagoya 2010 Japan Citizens’ Network for Planet Diversity (JCNPD) is a nationwide network for citizens who are working on protecting our food crop diversity from living modified organisms. We started this network in order to act on the United Nations’ major meeting [...]

By Yasuaki Yamaura In April 2008, Japan’s Food Safety Commission (FSC) was asked by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labour to make an assessment of the safety of food from cloned animals. Somatic cell cloning has recently emerged as an issue also in Japan, and on February 29, 2009, a special assessment group on [...]