{"id":101395,"date":"2009-11-27T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18884161.post-8160663855002187614"},"modified":"2009-11-27T18:11:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:11:15","slug":"china-finally-approves-genetically-modified-rice-for-commercialisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/101395","title":{"rendered":"China finally approves genetically modified rice for commercialisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Top rice producer China approves GMO strain<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Checkbiotech<\/p>\n<p>Friday, November 27, 2009<\/p>\n<p>By Niu Shuping and Tom Miles<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this item from BEIJING &#8211; there is news that China has approved its first strain of genetically modified rice for commercial production, according to Reuters two scientists involved in the approval process . This potentially eases the way for other major producers to adopt the controversial technology.        <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The item indicates that approval of the locally-developed rice, as well as China&#8217;s first GMO corn, shifts the global balance of power in food trade and could prompt other countries to follow suit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenbio.checkbiotech.org\/news\/exclusive_top_rice_producer_china_approves_gmo_strain\">Exclusive: Top rice producer China approves GMO strain | Checkbiotech<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18884161-8160663855002187614?l=gmopundit.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Top rice producer China approves GMO strain Checkbiotech Friday, November 27, 2009 By Niu Shuping and Tom Miles In this item from BEIJING &#8211; there is news that China has approved its first strain of genetically modified rice for commercial production, according to Reuters two scientists involved in the approval process . This potentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}