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- The Malaysian Board of Plant Biosafety received a petition from 61 groups to reject Zen Cropscience’s GM-rice trial.
- The trial would grow MR219 rice tolerant to glyphosate inside a net-house in northern Perak.
- Opponents warn the GMO could contaminate conventional rice, foster super-weed and leave glyphosate residues.
- Abdul Rashid Yob cited Clearfield rice failures that raised herbicide use, while Mageswari Sangaralingam cited the WHO’s 2015 “probably carcinogenic” glyphosate label.
