The Chief Executive Officer of the National Biosafety Authority, Mr. Kwame Dei Asamoah-Okyere on Friday October 4, 2024 played host to two (2) partner organizations – Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB) and the National Centre for the Coordination of Early Warning ad Response Mechanism (NCCRM) to discuss issues of mutual interest. The…
The Human Rights Court 1 has dismissed the suit filed by Food Sovereignty Ghana, Convention People’s Party, Vegetarian Association of Ghana and Goaso Kanyan Akuafo Kuo against the National Biosafety Authority (NBA) and four (4) others over the introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms products in the country. The judgement comes after nine (9) years of…
The attention of the National Biosafety Authority has been drawn to some inaccurate media reportage about the NBA’s registration of 14 novel GM events in the country. While we appreciate the various concerns raised, the NBA wishes to state that the approved events are not for cultivation. They are for food, feed or processing. They…
NOTIFICATION OF AN APPLICATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE AND PLACING ON THE MARKET OF POD BORER RESISTANT COWPEA IN GHANA In consonance with Biosafety Act 2011 (Act 831) and Biosafety (Management of Biotechnology) Regulations, 2019, the National Biosafety Authority has received an Application for consideration for the introduction into the environment and placing on the…
Ghana is now ready to introduce genetically modified organisms (GMOs) food onto the market, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Biosafety Authority (NBA), Dr Amaning Okoree, has announced. Hesaid the NBA, which is the regulator of the biotechnology industry in Ghana, had put in place the necessary structures to ensure that GMO products…