Austria, Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation identifies critical biosafety and ...

Bayer has applied for approval in the EU of its new herbicide, icafolin, following applications in Brazil, the US, and Canada ...

GMWatch is publishing a series of interviews with the late scientist Dr Arpad Pusztai, conducted in March 2002 by the journalist Andy Rowell, as part of his research for his book, Don't Worry, It's ...

Physicians' association deplores "persistent gap between available scientific knowledge and regulatory decisions". Report: Jonathan Matthews and Claire Robinson ...

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 ...

Recently NPR ran a story reporting that the GM purple tomato, genetically engineered with genes from snapdragons to contain high levels of the antioxidant anthocyanin, is now on sale to home gardeners ...

The GM canola, newly approved in Norway to feed farmed salmon, is engineered to be grown with an EU-banned herbicide and contains oils that caused deformities in butterflies. Report: Claire Robinson ...

The anti-eugenics activist group, Stop Designer Babies (SDB), (1) is protesting today outside the ‘International Summit’ on human genetic modification (HGM). (2) SDB and its international partners are ...

Glyphosate may be "critical environmental trigger" in wheat sensitivity, bowel diseases, and some mental illnesses, say scientists. Report: Claire Robinson A scientific review identifies glyphosate as ...

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, ...

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 ...