Kenya plans to release biotech guidelines by end of May

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The Kenyan government plans to release biotechnology guidelines by the end of May, bringing the East African nation a step closer toward joining other developing countries that are planting biotech crops, according to the Nairobi-based Daily Nation newspaper. Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki signed the Biosafety Act in 2009, but the law requires guidelines for implementation. Roy Muguiira, acting chief of the National Biosafety Authority (NBA), says the NBA is working with the State Law Office to prescribe biotech labelling rules: "We will borrow from Kenya Bureau of Standards, because it already has standards of packaging and labeling of biotechnology products," he is quoted as saying.