{"id":96035,"date":"2015-03-03T11:52:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T11:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=96035"},"modified":"2015-03-03T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T11:58:28","slug":"court-orders-agric-ministry-to-halt-production-of-gm-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=96035","title":{"rendered":"Court orders Agric Ministry to halt production of GM products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Fast Track High Court has ordered the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to halt all the production and sale of Genetically Modified products in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;DUNJZ4VmDFur1tfFATvXwkh0JCiM873l&#8221;]A civil society group, Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/02\/10\/group-sues-agric-ministry-gmos\/#sthash.0lROZ3MT.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>dragged the Ministry to court<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0seeking an injunction to prevent the Ministry from commercializing the sale of Genetically Modified (GM) foods in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They claim the Ministry does not have the authority to commercialize such products.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/02\/suit-against-agric-ministry-over-gm-foods-set-for-tuesday\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>in an earlier statement<\/strong><\/a><\/span> said, \u201cOur case is very simple. According to Section 13 of the Biosafety Act, 2011, Act 831\u2026only the National Biosafety Authority has such a power to authorize the commercial release of GM foods in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court in its ruling on Tuesday upheld Food Sovereignty&#8217;s plea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GMOs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14000\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GMOs.jpg\" alt=\"GMOs\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GMOs.jpg 851w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GMOs-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/contextly.com\/redirect\/?id=cC0y3hurHR:96035:2534:13::yxkv3R0V9gLHrYauWJBE8WacA:only_previous:54f5a122aed4a2-76507584\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Plant Breeders Bill<\/strong><\/a><\/span> which includes genetically modified organisms (GMOs) triggered massive debate\u00a0in the country\u00a0in 2014 \u00a0when the bill \u00a0was tabled before\u00a0Parliament for consideration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Various stakeholders and individuals kicked against it insisting that it will undermine and damage the traditional farming practices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also argued that approving the bill will serve as unnecessary threat to public health, water resources, air and the natural environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fast Track High Court has ordered the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to halt all the production and sale of Genetically Modified products in the country. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;DUNJZ4VmDFur1tfFATvXwkh0JCiM873l&#8221;]A civil society group, Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) dragged the Ministry to court\u00a0seeking an injunction to prevent the Ministry from commercializing the sale of Genetically Modified (GM) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":82120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-96035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}