Roy Mugiira: Biosafety agency boss on its fight against GMO myths

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Dr Roy Mugiira is the chief executive of the National Biosafety Authority. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH BARASA | NMG

The biotech research community in Kenya heaved with relief when the government lifted a decade-old ban on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in October last year.

This would face headwinds immediately when court cases stopped the regulator, the National Biosafety Authority (NBA), from facilitating the distribution, importation, transactions and growth of GMOs.

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