It was with relief but mixed feelings that the delegates and observers of the Biosafety Protocol meeting in Curitiba welcomed a last minute agreement on the contentious issue of identification and documentation of international shipments of GMOs in food, feed and for processing. After 4 days of intensive negotiations, which went into 6 a.m. in the morning of Friday in the "friends of the chair" drafting group and lasted until 8 p.m. in the plenary a deal was found that does improve the previous interim provisions but fall short of what the large majority of countries wanted. The last watering down of the text, orchestrated by the US and industry, was carried out by Mexico and Paraguay.</p><p><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32550">IPS: Biosafety Protocol Alive, but Restricted</a></p><p><a href="http://www.iisd.ca/biodiv/bs-copmop3/">Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage of Biosafety Protocol</a></p><p><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/weak-gmo-identification-improv">Greenpeace: Better than nothing</a></p><p><a href="http://biotech-trade-watch.org/?Vlang=en&PHPSESSID=7eb2f8b9dbda85c821cf555142f5032d">Biotech Trade Watch: Video of last negotiations, Interview with Li Lim Lin (TWN) on results</a></p><p><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=FRI20060318&articleId=2123">Friends of the Earth: International Safety Laws Agreed</a>