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Koch, Muffy
Former official of the South African Committee on Genetic Experimentation (SAGENE), which became South Africa's
official regulator in 1989 and approved the first GM crops to be grown commercially anywhere in Africa: a Monsanto
Bt cotton and a white maize.
Koch is a member of the industry lobby group Africabio, is a contributor to UNEP-GEF Biosafety Capacity Building projects, has been contracted to provide technical support for the development of a biosafety manual for East African countries, and is employed by the Southern Africa Regional Biosafety program, administered by the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Program, which was a USAID-funded program based at Michigan State University from 1991 to 2003. (1)
Koch set up her own biotechnology consultancy, a company trading as Innovation Biotechnology, later relaunched as Golden Genomics, which in 2004 applied for a permit for field trials with GM potatoes. (2)
Endnotes:
(1) Defunct ABSP website at http://www.iia.msu.edu/absp/ , accessed Jan 17, 2005
(2) GMWatch biography at http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=271&page=K , accessed Jan 12, 2005
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