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AAP General News (Australia)
05-12-1999
VIC: Call for genetically engineered food probe: ACF

MELBOURNE, May 12 AAP - Thousands of Australians were calling on state and federal health
ministers to inquire into the unregulated sale of genetically engineered foods, the Australian
Conservation Foundation (ACF) said today.

Demonstrators gathered in central Melbourne outside the office of Victorian Health Minister
Rob Knowles today to call for a delay on tomorrow's introduction of a new gene technology food
standard.

ACF GeneEthics Network Director Bob Phelps said there was a great risk to ...

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