{"id":185743,"date":"2024-12-02T12:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T10:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mandates-gmo-rearing-registration-after-court-lifts-ban\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T10:10:53","slug":"kenya-mandates-gmo-rearing-registration-after-court-lifts-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mandates-gmo-rearing-registration-after-court-lifts-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Mandates GMO Rearing Registration After Court Lifts Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) now requires individuals rearing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) to register and obtain approval, following the High Court&#8217;s November 7 ruling lifting the 2012 ban on GMO cultivation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">NBA has emphasized strict adherence to safety protocols under the Biosafety Act, warning that unauthorized dealings with GMOs are punishable by law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Application forms are accessible via the NBA website and eCitizen platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Since 2010, Kenya has approved&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412020212.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) now requires individuals rearing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) to register and obtain approval, following the High Court&#8217;s November 7 ruling lifting the 2012 ban on GMO cultivation. NBA has emphasized strict adherence to safety protocols under the Biosafety Act, warning that unauthorized dealings with GMOs are punishable by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":185744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7185,6185,31915,4688,430,7840,15435,257,12136,7231,254],"class_list":["post-185743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-court","tag-gmo","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lifts","tag-mandates","tag-news","tag-rearing","tag-registration","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}