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Viewpoint: Mexico’s GM crop import ban creates dire legal and trade consequences
In December 2020, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), issued a decree banning genetically modified (GM) corn for human consumption. Mexico ...
Viewpoint: Crop biotechnology skeptics — who insist that elusive ‘consumer acceptance’ should trump science — block agricultural innovation
When it comes to certain activists’ decades-long objections to societally important advances in “genetic engineering,” or “genetic modification,” we would ...
Viewpoint: Tapping the breaks on regulatory overreach — How administrative bloat set up roadblocks for crop innovation
The EPA’s “plant regulator” definition has caused alarm in the relatively new plant biostimulant industry because some of its products ...
AquaBounty saga: The troubling story of why it took 25 years and $100 million to bring a fast-growing, sustainable genetically-engineered fish to market
The first U.S. sales of the AquAdvantage salmon, a faster‐ growing, genetically engineered fish, have finally begun. The farmed fish ...
Are coronavirus fears breathing new life into old childhood diseases?
Fear among vulnerable patients that they may contract and succumb to a COVID-19 infection is completely understandable. It is less ...
Viewpoint: Government regulation of ‘natural’ label could backfire, hurt consumers—as it did for ‘organic’
[Editor’s note: Peter Van Doren is editor of the quarterly journal Regulation and an expert on the regulation of housing, ...
Will White House review of biotech regulation lead to expanded or streamlined rules?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Obama administration recently ...
Genetically modified choice: Retailers fill labeling void
The following is an excerpt. The New York Times reports today that Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Aldi supermarket chains have decided ...
