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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WEEKLY WATCH 54, Fr 09.01.04 13:14</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">70% OF AMERICANS ALLERGIC TO GMOS</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A group of Russian scientists is going to request President Putin to impose a temporary moratorium on GMOs, Alexander Baranov, a research officer of the Institute of Development Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, announced at a press conference. He said the measure is necessary until all possible risks and effects of GMOs on the environment and people's health are fully researched. The scientist mentioned that according to the</FONT><B> <FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">results of investigations conducted by scientist in Sweden and the USA</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, 8 percent of people in Sweden and 70 percent of people in the USA proved to be allergic to GMOs.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In Russia the number of people with marked symptoms of allergy increased by three times over the past three years. It is possible that this development was caused by GM food and organisms that are widely traded across Russia, Baranov indicated. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">According to Baranov, the Grain Union of Russia has recently submitted to the government a bill that envisages legalization of GMOs in Russia. It is therefore necessary to develop and approve a bill on biological safety as soon as possible, and provide access to GMO-related information, the expert concluded. </FONT><A HREF="http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20031211190732.shtml"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20031211190732.shtml</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT></P>
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