{"id":199797,"date":"2025-06-08T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-biosafety-regulator-convenes-forum-on-gmo-safety-in-naivasha\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:50:40","slug":"kenya-biosafety-regulator-convenes-forum-on-gmo-safety-in-naivasha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-biosafety-regulator-convenes-forum-on-gmo-safety-in-naivasha\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Biosafety Regulator Convenes Forum On GMO Safety in Naivasha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Experts, government officials, scholars, policymakers, researchers, farmers, and youth representatives will converge next week in Naivasha, Nakuru County, to take stock of the achievements and challenges in embracing modern biotechnology in Kenya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The conference, themed &#8220;13 Years Later: Building Trust and Ensuring Safety of Genetically Modified Organisms,&#8221; will reflect on Kenya&#8217;s journey toward adopting modern biotechnology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">This will be the 13th edition of the conference organized by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060189.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 Experts, government officials, scholars, policymakers, researchers, farmers, and youth representatives will converge next week in Naivasha, Nakuru County, to take stock of the achievements and challenges in embracing modern biotechnology in Kenya. The conference, themed &#8220;13 Years Later: Building Trust and Ensuring Safety of Genetically Modified Organisms,&#8221; will reflect on Kenya&#8217;s journey toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":199798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8658,12780,6284,31915,4688,430,21761,257,19873,4672,254],"class_list":["post-199797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biosafety","tag-convenes","tag-forum","tag-gmo","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-naivasha","tag-news","tag-regulator","tag-safety","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/199797","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=199797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}