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1. The major problem appears to be collusion between the seed companies and the Regulatory and research establishment in India leading to detrimental effects on farmer welfare (e.g., hybrid cotton, ...
Ag and food writer says GMO deregulation lobby live “in a fantasy land of precision, predictability and imagined safety”; ...
It’s time to step up the opposition to designer babies, says Marcy Darnovsky of the Center for Genetics and Society ...
The USDA wants to deregulate (approve for release into the wild) the GM American chestnut tree in spite of the fact that it ...
Sustainable Pulse. Source: Le Monde, by Stéphane Foucart (article translated from French to English by Sustainable Pulse) ...
* Organic and biodynamic farmers and food producers still have a legal obligation to avoid contamination with all GMOs, including PBOs. The new Regulations take away the necessary tools and processes ...
Glyphosate-based herbicides contain toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, chromium and nickel, a new study has found. These are not declared and are normally banned due to their toxicity. They are ...
The French government's food safety agency ANSES has demolished the European Commission’s proposal for a definition of a class of new GM plants (so-called Category I NGT plants) that would be exempted ...
All "new GM" animals must be examined for intended and unintended effects to protect animals, health and nature – Testbiotech Testbiotech has published a report on the application of new genetic ...
Recent scientific findings have revealed chromothripsis-like effects after the application of CRISPR/Cas gene editing in the genome of tomatoes, reports Testbiotech in an article commenting on a ...
Save Our Seeds and GMWatch explore the fate of the bold claims made for agricultural GMOs Whatever happened to GM Golden Rice? And wasn’t GM salmon supposed to revolutionise aquaculture? Three decades ...
EXTRACT: CryAb1 toxin [was] detected in [pregnant women], their fetuses and [non-pregnant women]. This is the first study to reveal the presence of circulating [pesticides associated to genetically ...