In a study in rats, when pregnant mothers and their descendants were exposed to doses considered safe by regulatory agencies, adverse effects were seen in offspring ...

Tragic incident begs questions about safety and ethics violations in the wider field of genetic engineering. Report: Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews ...

New gene editing technique can easily circumvent risk assessment, thanks to the EU's lax new rule, says Swiss GMO-free ...

Noymer is calling for retraction of the Proximal Origin paper on the grounds that it is fraudulent, in that the ...

Monsanto was created in 1901. The company's first product was the artificial sweetener saccharin. In the 1920s Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals. During the Second World War Monsanto ...

Bayer has applied for approval in the EU of its new herbicide, icafolin, following applications in Brazil, the US, and Canada. The company states that glyphosate resistant weeds – which have thrived ...

Covert PR operations involving the secret profiling of over 3,000 people and organisations considered “critics” of the pesticide industry recently made headlines around the world. The secret profiles, ...

Patrick Holden, CEO, Sustainable Food Trust, explains why the time for action is now The new UK regulatory framework on genetically modified (GM) plants threatens both the right of farmers to choose ...

One-third of the US’s total annual pesticide use attributed to no- and minimum-till GM corn and soy. Report: Claire Robinson A widespread narrative holds that tillage (ploughing) can increase ...

Ag and food writer says GMO deregulation lobby live “in a fantasy land of precision, predictability and imagined safety”; points instead to agroecological controls. Report: Claire Robinson In a letter ...

An article in the Journal of Medical Entomology critically reflects on the hype surrounding gene drive technologies, a novel self-spreading form of genetic modification that is designed to engineer ...

They fear the pesticide industry’s response to the Global Glyphosate Study triggered the firing of the Institute’s scientific director The FP-CGIL trade union, a major Italian union representing ...