Agricultural Laws & Regulations
How the Biden Administration can accelerate prosperity by fixing agricultural-biotech regulations
The Biden administration has a rare opportunity to accelerate agricultural innovation and spur broad and lasting economic growth by taking ...
US intelligence report predicts greater global role for biotechnology
Biotechnology could potentially account for about 20 percent of the global economy by 2040, with agricultural and manufacturing uses the ...
Market for CRISPR-edited crops will be limited by hazy global regulatory environment and societal ambivalence
New breeding techniques pioneered by genome editing have gained substantial traction within the last decade, revolutionizing the plant breeding field ...
Overwhelming majority of Europeans support compulsory labeling of GM-derived food, claims study commissioned by EU Green group
[A] report, commissioned by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and carried out by the polling organisation Ipsos, surveyed ...
International science denial: Top-5 activist groups spreading anti-GMO myths in Latin America
The United States and Europe are home to some of the most influential anti-biotechnology advocacy groups in the world. They ...
Viewpoint: Spend $83,000 on organic food to prevent cancer? Here’s why you should save your money
The alternative health advocates at Natural News recommend you spend an additional $83,000 on organic food to avoid cancer and ...
‘Let the government arrest us’: India’s farmers will plant more illegal glyphosate-tolerant cotton to protest GM crop restrictions
It is illegal to grow [herbicide-tolerant Bt (HTBt)] cotton in India since the Government has not cleared it for commercial ...
Changing course, Health Canada finds neonicotinoid pesticides ‘not a threat’ to aquatic insects
In 2018, Health Canada proposed to phase out all agricultural uses of thiamethoxam, a Syngenta product, and clothianidin, a Bayer ...
Gene-edited crops ‘safe for human consumption and the environment,’ Health Canada finds
Health Canada is proposing new rules to deal with plant breeding innovation, including gene-edited crops. To develop the new guidelines, ...
Europe could become an ‘agricultural museum’ unless it embraces crop gene editing, officials warn
Speaking during the AGRI Committee debate, right-wing MEP Mazaly Aguilar raised a concern that, by imposing new restrictions on the ...
Opposition to crop biotechnology fuels ‘global trade concerns,’ Congressional Research Service finds
When foods containing GE ingredients were first introduced in the 1990s, some members of the public called for banning them ...
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Viewpoint: India’s ‘retreat’ from GM crops in the face of dogmatic opposition will harm its farmers
In deciding to consider proposals for GM crop field trials only upon the recommendation of state governments, [the Indian government] ...
Podcast: This GMO ‘almost’ wiped out all life; Here comes AquaBounty salmon; Pregnancy, chemicals and junk science
Did you hear about the genetically engineered microbe that almost wiped out all life? It got widespread attention in the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Science-based trade’ — Why the US should dispute Mexico’s glyphosate, GM corn bans at the WTO
Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, issued a decree that has U.S. agriculture worried. The decree bans glyphosate, a herbicide, ...
UK sugar beet farmers could be growing gene-edited, disease-resistant crops within 5 years
[British Sugar] is investigating gene-edited beet seed as a long-term solution to [virus yellows] disease, which devastated crops across eastern ...
Following glyphosate ban, Belgian gardeners find ‘eco-friendly’ weedkillers mostly ineffective
The majority of weed-killing products on the market today were rated “weak” or “bad,” according to results from the Belgian ...
Anti-GMO groups struggle to preserve Europe’s stringent crop gene-editing rules in post-Brexit UK
Following its political and economic divorce from the European Union, the UK has been forced to tackle an incendiary question: ...
EU should speed its adoption of CRISPR crops to keep up with global competition, officials say
Using genome editing technologies in plants could help the EU ensure food security and reduce the impact of current agriculture ...
Viewpoint: Skeptical of pesticides? That’s because you don’t know what life is like without them
Our greatest public health challenge isn’t chemicals -- it's ignorance and fear-mongering about them ...
Mexico’s proposal to phase out glyphosate, GM corn spurs ‘across-the-board’ farmer opposition, USDA says
On December 31, 2020, Mexico published a decree which announced a revocation of existing permits for genetically engineered (GE) corn, ...
Viewpoint: USDA, FDA should abandon ‘tangled’ gene-edited animal rules and collaborate to commercialize more products
The science says and continues to say that foods made from genetically modified crops are safe for consumption, they can ...
Bowing to political pressure, India scraps plans to trial GM, insect-resistant, Bt eggplant
[The Indian government] has junked its decision of allowing scientific field trials of transgenic crops including indigenously developed Bt brinjal. ...
Bolivia will repeal rules expediting GM crop approvals, inciting pushback from farmers who want access to new technologies
It's official. The [Bolivian] Central Government will seek to annul the supreme decrees that paved the way for the use ...
Biden Administration backs aerial glyphosate spraying to combat Colombia’s cocaine trade, drawing criticism from some drug policy experts
Biden’s administration celebrated Colombia’s decision to restart aerial eradication of coca in its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Colombian ...
‘Stop conflating all biotechnology with genetic engineering’: The case for more refined USDA regulations
Policymakers had known for years that the U.S. regulation of crop biotechnology was out of date, and by 2016, discussions ...
Bayer won’t appeal first glyphosate-cancer verdict to the U.S. Supreme Court
Bayer will not appeal a $20.5 million Roundup verdict—the first Roundup verdict in the nation—to the U.S. Supreme Court, the ...
