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BREAKING NEWS: Sri Lankan President Bans Sale of Roundup on the Heels of Recent Chronic Kidney Disease Study. Sri Lanka has become the first country to ban the sale of Monsanto’s Roundup glyphosate herbicide after the Sri Lankan study found that the herbicide is responsible for the increasing number of chronic kidney disease patients.
This updates the news that was reported last September 2013 when the Sri Lanka Agriculture Ministry banned the import, distribution and sale of Carbaryl, Chlorophyriphos, Carbofuran, Propanil and Glyphosate. Agriculture Ministry Secretary W. Sakalasuriya had said pesticide retailers were permitted to sell the pesticides only through specially trained Agricultural Sales and Technical Assistants and a mechanism was introduced to dispose or recycle empty pesticide bottles in collaboration with the Environment Ministry.
The 2014 directive by President Mahinda Rajapaksa completely bans Roundup from sale in the marketplace.
READ MORE: http://sustainablepulse.com/2014/03/15/sri-lankan-president-bans-sale-roundup-chronic-kidney-disease-study/
Direct Link to Study: http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/2/2125
(Note: Bhutan is the first country to declare its intent to be all-organic, meaning that they will pursue agriculture without synthetic pesticides - including glyphosate - or synthetic fertilizers country-wide, but Bhutan has not set a firm deadline for this pursuit. Also, El Salvador introduced legislation to ban glyphosate along with many other pesticides, but the law has not been enacted. So Sri Lanka is the first to officially ban glyphosate. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/feb/11/bhutan-first-wholly-organic-country)

Pakistan has suspended GMO crop licensing. With a changing regulatory regime, many reasons were cited for the suspension: the use of uncertified varieties; inadequate risk assessments such as laboratory and field tests; the protection of biological diversity from the potential risks posed by GM organisms resulting from modern biotechnology; concerns for national security and trade; and the potential of GMOs to be “biological weapons of mass destruction”, which could be used to destroy Pakistan’s major crops such as potato, wheat, rice, corn, cotton and vegetables through modified viruses, bacteria and other parasites. “The bio-safety committee is restrained from issuing any GM organism licenses and the government has been directed to establish a new regulatory regime for the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol," an international agreement which aims to ensure the safe handling, transport and use of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effects on biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health.
READ: http://www.dawn.com/news/1106195/court-stops-regulator-from-issuing-licences-for-modified-seeds

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