GMOs without foreign genes

Nathan Gray | Food Navigator | 
Recent advances that allow the precise editing of genomes have raised the possibility that fruit and other crops might be ...

European regulator rejects France’s attempt to ban GM corn

Nathan Gray | Food Navigator | 
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said French documentation supporting the country's attempt to ban Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified ...

Safeway shareholders reject GMO labeling, garners only 10 percent support

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
Shareholders at Safeway have rejected a proposal from the Green Century Equity Fund calling for mandatory GMO labeling on its ...

Going non-GMO often means returning to less environmentally friendly food production system

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
When consumers think about GMOs, they tend to contrast them with “some hypothetical alternative food that is pristine”, when in ...

Education of public about GM food should begin with chefs

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
Most high-profile chefs - or at least the ones on TV that have influenced whole generations of 'foodies' - are ...

European Food Safety Authority greenlights Monsanto’s new GM soybean crop

Nathan Gray | Food Navigator | 
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has delivered a positive scientific opinion on Monsanto's MON 87769 soybean crop, which has ...

Food companies need to ditch defensive strategy and launch positive campaign about GM crops’ merits

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
If biotech’s big guns want to seize the initiative in the GMO debate, they should ditch their defensive strategy (telling ...

Non-GMO and organic food supplier claims GMOs not needed to feed world

Maggie Hennessy | Food Navigator | 
For a growing global population facing dwindling resources, non-GMO plant-based proteins are the future, says 29-year-old non-GMO and organic soybean ...

RNAi technology promising in developing gluten-free wheat

Kacey Culliney | Food Navigator | 
Genetic modification of wheat genes to 'silence' protein fractions toxic to those with celiac disease holds promise for cereal development, ...
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Similac baby formula will not get GMO label as Abbott rejects shareholder call

Stephen Daniells | Food Navigator | 
An Abbott Laboratories shareholder proposal to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in its Similac infant formula range received about 5 ...

Vermont’s GMO-labeling bill faces tough First Amendment challenges

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
Legal experts say the Vermont bill requiring foods produced with genetic engineering to be labeled that now just needs Governor Peter ...
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Academics Review: Organic food industry engaged in ‘multi-decade public disinformation campaign’

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
Consumers have spent years paying over the odds for organic foods based on the erroneous belief - promulgated by stakeholders ...

Heinz latest target in false advertising lawsuits over ‘all natural’ claims and GMOs

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
Heinz has vowed to vigorously defend itself after becoming the latest food giant to be targeted in a false advertising ...
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Cereals reformulated to be non-GMO less nutritious than GMO versions

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
Post Foods’ new non-GMO Grape Nuts no longer include vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B12 or vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), while ...
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Mission Tortilla says FDA should weigh in on GMO-natural dispute

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
Civil litigation over whether GMOs belong in ‘all-natural’ products will continue to clog up US courts owing to the FDA’s ...
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Will new lawsuit delay commercialization of AquaBounty’s GM salmon?

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
AquaBounty Technologies, makers of a GE salmon nearing approval, says a new lawsuit is just the latest attempt by opponents ...

Will Kellogg follow Gen Mills and Post in non-GMO embrace?

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
Many brands are "playing a waiting game" right now to whether moves by General Mills and Post Foods to axe ...

Ex FDA official analyzes industry draft GMO labeling and ‘natural’ proposal

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
It might have enraged those in favor of mandatory GMO labeling, but a leaked document outlining the Grocery Manufacturers Association’s ...

GMO labeling push will propel certified organic market

Hank Schultz | Food Navigator | 
The struggle over GMO labeling will push the growth of certified organic products in the US in 2014, according to ...
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Jeffrey Smith’s claim of rampant GMO/gluten allergies rebuked by Celiac Disease Foundation

Maggie Hennessy | Food Navigator | 
A recent report by anti-GMO activist Jeffrey Smith claims that GMOs can be blamed for the rise of gluten-sensitivity disorders, ...

View from New Zealand: How the Séralini GMO rat study made suckers of so many people

Katherine Rich | Food Navigator | 
When a study by French scientist Gilles-Éric Séralini came out last year allegedly showing that rats that ate genetically modified ...

No scientific evidence for Italian ban on Monsanto GM maize, says EFSA

Nathan Gray | Food Navigator | 
There is ‘no specific scientific evidence’ to support an Italian ban on the genetically modified maize MON810, according the European ...

The Grocery Manufacturers Association has launched a GMO facts website

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
(Summary) In response to the growing polarization of the GMO debate, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) launched a new GMO ...

‘Fear of the unknown’ prevents African adoption of GM crops, says African ag group

Caroline Scott-Thomas | Food Navigator | 
Widespread opposition to genetically modified (GM) crops in Africa has been described as a farce, based on fear of the ...

Bruce Chassy: None of the animals and plants we eat today exist ‘in nature,’ they are all GMOs

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
What precedent might it set if firms are forced to label foods made using new technologies, even if the end ...

Nutraceutical CEO: We won’t see government mandated GE labeling; it’s a marketing issue

Stephen Daniells | Food Navigator | 
From California to Washington, and from Connecticut to Vermont, initiatives to label the presence of ingredients derived from genetically modified ...
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Is FDA’s review process for GE animals fit for its purpose?

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
To explore whether the regulatory process in question is fit for its purpose, the Food & Drug Law Institute's Food ...

Debate: Is the FDA’s review process for GE animals fit for purpose?

Elaine Watson | Food Navigator | 
To explore whether the regulatory process in question is fit for purpose, the Food & Drug Law Institute's Food and ...
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