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 ...

The right-wing majority in the European Parliament today has voted today to scrap existing safety and transparency rules for new GM foods (NGTs). By doing so they betrayed farmers, consumers and ...

ARCHE NOAH: A dark day for diversity and freedom of choice The European Parliament has voted for a wide-reaching deregulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). There was no majority for amendments ...

Government failed to investigate consequences of its decision to deregulate gene-edited organisms before removing longstanding safeguards relating to transparency, traceability, labelling and ...

Belgium has granted permission for emergency use of an RNAi pesticide even though it's not approved at EU level POLLINIS and Nature & Progrès Belgium have taken legal action and filed an appeal for ...

Writing in Le Monde, a group of scientists have expressed deep concern over the EU proposal to deregulate new GMOs, which they say is based not on science but “an illusion”, as well as “a radical form ...

Virtually no market uptake and unproven sustainability benefits contrast with rapid regulatory change. Report: ENGA The Non-GMO industry association ENGA, in cooperation with the US-based Non-GMO ...

Deregulation proposal favours political and economic objectives at the expense of the precautionary principle and the public interest, say agriculture experts The Panhellenic Federation of Agronomists ...