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Stewardship. Precautionary principle, science, public interest, human & planetary health, tech, pollution, nutrition, genetics & epigenetics. Substack/YouTube/Spotify/Insta: @PSGRNZ Website: PSGR.org.nz

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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Chapter 7 of Reclaiming Health. Health Targets Decoupled From Policies. No Power to Stop Rising Disease Rates. No health targets exist for lowering the prevalence and incidence of diabetes, heart disease & mental illness in NZ public health directorate policies. psgrnz.substack.com/p/no-health-...
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No health targets exist for lowering the prevalence and incidence of diabetes, heart disease and mental illness, in the public health directorate policies.
Chapter 7. Health Targets Decoupled From Policies. No Power to Stop Rising Disease Rates.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Our Open Letter to all NZ members of Parliament. Why has the government produced a cascade of government bills that consistently fails to implement the PCE's 8 recommendations? Why does the Minister for the Environment not hold information on the PCE?
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NZ H1N1 bird flu. MPI & DOC rejected our OIA request. We asked for too much data! But significant decisions are usually distilled into a relatively narrow set of records. Shouldn't evidence be evaluated summarised or communicated through identifiable assessments, briefings or decision documents?
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In our open letter, sent today we call on Members of Parliament not to approve five Bills currently progressing through Parliament until critical gaps in environmental monitoring, risk assessment and precaution are addressed. psgr.org.nz/pollution
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NZ White Paper: 'Reclaiming Health' calls for Urgent Reset of New Zealand Health Policy & Sets Out a Path to Reversal, Not Just Management, of Chronic Disease. psgr.org.nz/reclaiming-h...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Government guidelines broadly recommending high carbohydrate dietary intakes, do not take into account individual insulin sensitivity. Chapter 6 of Reclaiming Health. New Zealand's Carbohydrate-Rich Guidelines. psgrnz.substack.com/p/government...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
FRESHWATER POLLUTION: We can detect degradation. But can we find out what’s causing it? 7yrs ago, we warned NZ lacked a systematic way to investigate manmade chemical pollution in freshwater. New environmental laws are passing through Parliament. The gap remains. psgr.org.nz/fw
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As triglyceride concentrations rise the risk & severity of poorly controlled T2DM increase, alongside heightened heart attack risk the risk of depression. High cholesterol is the least of our worries. Ch2. The Total Carbohydrate Burden psgrnz.substack.com/p/as-triglyc...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Glyphosate. Billions paid out to claimants in trials. Another well-designed study showing compelling evidence for bone cancer risk has just been published. Is this more 'new knowledge' that the NZ EPA will disregard? Gagnier JJ, & O’Connor JP. (2026).
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Prevalence of food addiction may be more common than recognised. 14% of adults & 12% of children (a reported prevalence similar to alcohol addiction) struggle with food addiction. Ch.4. The Carbohydrate-Dopamine Cycle: Amplified by Ultraprocessed Foods. psgrnz.substack.com/p/prevalence...
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Prevalence of food addiction may be more common than recognised. 14% of adults & 12% of children (a reported prevalence similar to alcohol addiction) struggle with food addiction.
Chapter 4. The Carbohydrate-Dopamine Cycle: Amplified by Ultraprocessed Foods.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
On Substack now: Metabolic disruption & subclinical nutrient deficiency: Precursor & a companion to a wide range of metabolic & mental illnesses. Read Chapter 3. Brain Health: Consistently Associated With Metabolic Dysfunction. #psychiatric #nutrition psgrnz.substack.com/p/metabolic-...
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Metabolic disruption & subclinical nutrient deficiency: Precursor & a companion to a wide range of metabolic & mental illnesses
Chapter 3. Brain Health: Consistently Associated With Metabolic Dysfunction.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
'The discovery that diabetes & poor metabolic health can be reversed by dietary means should have revolutionised modern medicine - but hasn’t.' Chapter 1 of PSGRNZ's major report: Reclaiming Health. psgrnz.substack.com/p/the-discov...
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'The discovery that diabetes and poor metabolic health can be reversed by dietary means should have revolutionised modern medicine - but hasn’t.'
Chapter 1. The Problem. Cascading Impairment Driving Multimorbidity.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Is it timely to update the Hippocratic Oath? This is @adamcifu of @Sensible__Med's thoughtful rendering. Your thoughts? www.sensible-med.com/p/a-hippocra...
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A Hippocratic Oath for 2026
A Hippocratic Oath for 2026 and (a little) beyond
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Good initiative. Health policy currently ignores multimorbidity & polypharmacy risks & isn't testing disease-reversal strategies identified by NZ doctors & scientists. metabolichealthnz.org/event/metabo...
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The Metabolic Health NZ Summit 2026 - Metabolic Health NZ
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If Professor Robert Lustig @robertlustigmd.bsky.social (UCSF) can acknowledge that we ‘got the science right’ - why can’t New Zealand members of Parliament and our health agencies? psgrnz.substack.com/p/reclaiming...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Australia's childcare sector team up with forensic food scientists to examine the integrity of Australia's food supply. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9m2...
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We tested your groceries. This is what we found | Four Corners
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
How proposed changes to HSNO Act are prioritising faster approvals over public health & environmental safety; while committee hearings have favoured industry groups & concerns about chemical exposure, occupational illness have been sidelined. @RCR_NZ rcr.media/episodes/jod...
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JODIE BRUNING Sociologist & Lead Researcher At Physicians And Scientists For Global Responsibility
<p>Sociologist and lead researcher at PGSR, <span><span>Jodie Bruning joins Paul Brennan to discuss the Government's proposed changes to New Zealand's HSNO Act are prioritising faster approvals over p...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Part 1. EMF Sensitive? You May Not Be the Outlier You Think You Are An intro to New Zealand regulatory frameworks; why your concerns are outside the framework; and how EMF radiation regulation came to differ so much from toxic chemicals regulation. psgrnz.substack.com/p/emf-sensit...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
So many 'problems' with National & ACT's HSNO Amendment Bill (304-1). Would the Bill undermine the principles and purpose of the existing HSNO Act 1996 - the cumulative proposed changes suggest 👉yes. Our Submission contents page says it all. psgr.org.nz/component/jd...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Controlled Demolition: How New Zealand Is Dismantling the Science It Needs Most. No NZ Federated Farmers - lower barriers to agrichemicals is not the silver bullet for grass grub. Science system reform has failed NZ farmers & growers. psgrnz.substack.com/p/controlled...
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Controlled Demolition: How New Zealand Is Dismantling the Science It Needs Most
No Federated Farmers - lower barriers to agrichemicals is not the silver bullet for grass grub.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Evidence suggests the HSNO Amendment Bill is poorly formed, that the agrichemical lobby and biotech developer interests took precedent over human & environmental health considerations to develop a Bill to speed up approvals, that may ultimately frustrate the purpose and principles of the HSNO Act
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The HSNO Amendment Bill: Faster Approvals Before Better Science? Will the Legislative Amendments Frustrate the Purpose and Principles of the HSNO Act 1996 and Grease the Regulatory Wheels for GMO Release into the Environment? psgrnz.substack.com/p/the-hsno-a...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Wired and Unwell Cascade. Part 5. The science linking wireless radiation to brain and nervous system harm. A scientifically credible, case that something real is happening- but the frameworks currently relied upon to protect the public were not built to see it psgrnz.substack.com/p/the-wired-...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Is the mechanistic pathway of harm from low-level RF-EMF exposures becoming clearer & clearer - even if ICNIRP & ICNIRP affiliated scientists continue to downplay it and dismiss it? 4th in a series of Substack articles. #EMF #ICNIRP #radiofrequency psgrnz.substack.com/p/emf-risk-b...
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EMF Risk Blindspot: The role of modulation in signal interaction
Part 4. Voltage-Gated Ion Channels are like electrically controlled floodgates in the body’s communication network. Calcium is a central message carrier flowing through those gates.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bravo Beyond GM UK - Judicial review process shining a light that no matter the smooth PR language - precision bred organisms (PBOs) are #GMOs & that a previous minister may have been misled by ministerial briefings. mailchi.mp/beyond-gm/gm...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The EMF Problem: RF Radiation Governance Without Democratic Risk Assessment. Part 3. How ICNIRP became the central organising authority for RF-EMF safety standards despite the absence of modern environmental public health risk assessment frameworks. psgrnz.substack.com/p/the-emf-pr...
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The EMF Problem: RF Radiation Governance Without Democratic Risk Assessment.
How ICNIRP became the central organising authority for RF-EMF safety standards across much of the world despite the absence of modern environmental public health risk assessment frameworks.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A palpable under-representation of public health expertise. Part 2. A committee weighted toward policy, monitoring standards and compliance, not comprehensive health risk evaluation. #EMF #radiation #science #ICNIRP psgrnz.substack.com/p/a-palpable...
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A palpable under-representation of public health expertise.
Part 2. A committee weighted toward policy, monitoring standards and compliance, not comprehensive health risk evaluation.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
EMF Sensitive? You May Not Be the Outlier You Think You Are Part 1. An intro to New Zealand regulatory frameworks; why your concerns are outside the framework; and how EMF radiation regulation came to differ so much from toxic chemicals regulation. psgrnz.substack.com/p/emf-sensit...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We discuss ketogenic diets & metabolic brain health in our new paper: Reclaiming Health: Reversal, Remission & Rewiring. Understanding & Addressing the Primary Drivers of New Zealand’s Metabolic & Mental Health Crisis. psgr.org.nz/component/jd...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The biology is visible. The exposures are measurable. Yet medicine often treats these forces as background context rather than primary drivers. ...bracketing upstream conditions as multifactorial or “too complex.” blanphear.substack.com/p/the-unfini...?
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The Unfinished Revolution in Medicine
We perfected cellular biology—and forgot to ask what’s damaging the cells.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
MASSIVE NZ paper - Reclaiming Health. Link here to the Recommendations for Reform Section. This is BIG! Do they make sense? Let us know! Please SHARE! We don't have the $$ budget!🤣😊 psgr.org.nz/2-uncategori... #diabetes #mental #health #brain #inflammation
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
1/2🧵Why New Zealand’s Natural Environment Bill Is Unlikely to Do What It Promises. Or🤨🤔🙄how we keep writing environmental law that sounds strong, feels modern - but consistently avoids the hardest problems. 💯https://psgrnz.substack.com/p/why-new-zealands-natural-environment #greenwashing
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Why New Zealand’s Natural Environment Bill Is Unlikely to Do What It Promises.
Or: how we keep writing environmental law that sounds strong, feels modern - but consistently avoids the hardest problems.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1🧵We’ve been humbled by support from some of the world’s leading interdisciplinary scientists & clinicians in metabolic, paediatric & brain health for our New Zealand paper Reclaiming Health: Reversal, Remission & Rewiring. All display integrity, curiosity & systems thinking.
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Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL @robertlustigmd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
How do we fix today's food system when policy isn't always on our side? Hear me discuss this, and more, with Dr. Urban A. Kiernan on this episode of Decoding Health: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuRv...
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How To Fix The Food System When Policy Won’t With Dr. Robert Lustig
YouTube video by Dr. Urban A. Kiernan
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
PRESS RELEASE: New Zealand's Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Gatekeeping Raises Alarm Bells. Can the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission fulfil its statutory mandate to improve mental health outcomes, if nutrition for brain health is deemed out of scope? psgrnz.substack.com/p/press-rele...
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PRESS RELEASE: Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Gatekeeping Raises Alarm Bells
Can the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission fulfil its statutory mandate to improve mental health outcomes, if nutrition for brain health is deemed out of scope?
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
FAQs - NZ Report Calls for Urgent Reset of New Zealand Health Policy. #Reclaiming #Health #cholesterol #bloodglucose #insulin #carbs #protein #fat #saturatedfat #micronutrients #macronutrients #vitamins #minerals #neurodevelopmental #brain #metabolic #psychiatric psgrnz.substack.com/p/reclaiming...
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Reclaiming Health: Reversal, Remission and Rewiring - the FAQs.
A question & answer guide for some of the most perplexing & controversial metabolic & mental health questions that are being asked in 2026.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Support for, and encouragement of robust, transparent and accountable knowledge-making, across lay-public, policy-makers, scientists and expert communities, in order to promote 'public-good' spaces of knowledge and information, is what we do. psgr.org.nz/science-for-...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🔥🔥🔥Open Letter: NZ Report Calls for Urgent Reset of New Zealand Health Policy. 📢 Media release. 📃Open Letter. 🔶Summary 3 pager + reform outline 💯Full report: Reclaiming Health. All available via this link: psgr.org.nz/reclaiming-h...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Heads-Up: Massive Public-Interest Health Paper About to Land. New Zealanders have been told that rising rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, anxiety, depression, & neurocognitive disorders are complex and best managed one condition at a time. psgrnz.substack.com/p/heads-up-m...
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Heads-Up: Massive Public-Interest Health Paper About to Land.
New Zealanders have been told that rising rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, anxiety, depression, & neurocognitive disorders are complex and best managed one condition at a time.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A Brief Response: The Telecommunications and Other Matters Amendment Bill. Our thoughts for the Select Committee. A particular focus on MBIE's Regulatory Impact Statement - which provides the underlying reasoning for the Bill. psgr.org.nz/pub-res/gene...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
2025 -That's a Wrap! 🔥The latest: 1. A scientific squabble on outdoors gene editing. 2. Amazing results with health coaching to shift diets away from refined carbs. 3. Water Fluoridation: US moving away while NZ enforces it. psgrnz.substack.com/p/thats-a-wrap
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That's a Wrap!
The latest: 1. A scientific squabble on outdoors gene editing. 2. Amazing results with health coaching to shift diets away from glucose. 3. Fluoridation: US moving away while NZ enforces it.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Health coaching which adopts a three-pronged approach: whole food, carbohydrate reduction; a health coach, behaviour-change-based delivery approach; and community- or peer-based initiatives - seems to work! NZ paper just out -prediabetes and type 2 diabetes declines. www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Along with many others, @psgrnz.bsky.social expressed alarm that the Australian OGTR required so little evidence before proposing to release a genetically modified mosquito strain to help prevent dengue outbreaks. The company application has since been withdrawn. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Company pauses plan to release controversial genetically modified mosquitoes
An organisation that planned to sell "friendly" mosquitoes to reduce the spread of diseases like dengue withdraws its licence application after backlash from scientists and health experts.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
EXPOSING THE TREATMENT GAP: When New Zealand’s long-term mental wellbeing strategy ignores the role of nutrition in protecting and sustaining mental health. 🔥SAANZ CONFERENCE 2025 psgrnz.substack.com/p/exposing-t...
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EXPOSING THE TREATMENT GAP: When New Zealand’s long-term mental wellbeing strategy ignores the role of nutrition in protecting and sustaining mental health.
SAANZ CONFERENCE '25, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON. PAPER PRESENTATION. J.R.BRUNING
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Building in policy for ‘fantastically cheerful medicine’. Why NZ's Ministry of Health may choose to ignore a key UK Case study. New Zealand Sociology (SAANZ) conference 2025 presentation on health reform. #diabetes #metabolicsyndrome psgrnz.substack.com/p/building-i...
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Great to be involved with this nationwide protest TOMORROW 🥰
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🔥Glyphosate = case study of regulatory capture. Symptom of a broader problem. NZ EPA haven't risk assessed glyphosate since the '70s. Rejected ELI's application for risk assessment. @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social sought judicial review. Now off to Court of Appeal. psgrnz.substack.com/p/what-is-ha...
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What is happening? Can the Courts Protect us if Principles enshrined in Legislation are Set Aside?
A NZ Judge recently took the NZ EPA at its word: 'no grounds for risk assessment'. So it's OK not to do risk assessment. The judge's decision is being appealed. Thank you ELI.
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Environmental Law Initiative - Aotearoa NZ @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Breaking: We are appealing the High Court ruling that upheld the NZ EPA’s decision finding no grounds to reassess glyphosate or glyphosate-containing herbicides. Despite being the most widely used herbicide in Aotearoa NZ, the EPA has never conducted a comprehensive risk assessment of #glyphosate.
Photo of an orange flower, with the text: Breaking. Appeal Filed. The Environmental Protection Authority has never done a proper risk assessment of the most abundantly-used herbicide in Aotearoa, glyphosate. We do not think that is right. That’s why, we are appealing the High Court ruling that upheld the EPA’s decision finding no grounds to reassess glyphosate or glyphosate-containing herbicides. Contains the ELI logo.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Zespri HQ. Prof Jack Heinemann & economist Dr Kris Kramer-Walter: gene editing & risk - economic & environmental. If you're interested in the scientific problem of substantial equivalence as a regulatory trigger for environmental GMO risk assessment - this talk is for you! vimeo.com/1135963956
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The future of GEGMOPB in NZ - Meeting Recording
This is "The future of GEGMOPB in NZ - Meeting Recording" by Zespri International on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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PSGRNZ @psgrnz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🔥Big constitutional problem. PSGR's open letter to NZ Members of Parliament. Do MPs know? 👉EU legislation not finalised, NZ legislation would be premature. 👉MBIE didn't do cost-benefit assessment 👉Regulation moves to agency with big COIs - MBIE. psgrnz.substack.com/p/psgrs-open...
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PSGR's Open Letter to NZ Members of Parliament
Gene Tech Bill concerns: Vote ahead of EU decision strategically unsound / Separation of regulatory oversight from economic advocacy functions at risk
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