At the Agency open Board meeting, Tim Smith, Chief Executive of the Food Standards Agency, announced that Professor John Curtice of the University of Strathclyde, is to chair the independent steering group that will advise the Agency on its forthcoming consumer engagement work on genetic modification (GM).
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There are now three targets for insects and habitats bird food , pollinators and the LINK project on insect predators . Lets hope Defra and NE see these wider habitat enhancements as applicable for ELS/HLS schemes
Syngenta media release (146)A good Horticultural Practice guide on the prevention and control of Impatiens downy mildew has been prepared by Martin McPherson (STC) and Wayne Brough (ADAS). It is now available here
Downy Mildew guideor on the BPOA website .
This Good Horticultural Practice guidance will be followed shortly (April 2009) by publication of an updated HDC Factsheet on Impatiens Downy Mildew. This will include more detail about the pathogen, the disease it causes and potential cultural and chemical control measures.