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Vermont may use ‘bounty hunters’ to enforce GMO labeling law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Private litigants, or so-called ...
European Parliment votes in favor of reauthorizing glyphosate but limits approval for 7 years
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Parliament has ...
Sen. Merkley’s mandatory GMO labeling bill backed by Campbell Soup unlikely to pass
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .Senator Jeff ...
How will consumers react to products labeled GMO, eco-friendly?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. According to the the ...
Vermont authorizes NSF International, Non GMO Project to verify GMO-free claims
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There will be two ...
Can next generation GMOs be rebranded as ‘green?’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Growing consumer concern about ...
Dizzying definitions: Consumers tell FDA what ‘natural’ food means to them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The FDA will have ...
Non-GMO Project objects to competition, opposes federal voluntary labeling standard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While supporters of Rep ...
Kashi pays $3.99m to settle suit claiming it misleading labeled food ‘all natural’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A federal judge in ...
Synbio flavors are natural, sustainable and GMO free but won’t get Non-GMO stamp
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Synthetic biology will become ...
Chipotle’s anti-GMO claims sow legal minefield for companies advertising themselves as non GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chipotle says it will ...
In debate over organic or conventional, is there third way to feed growing, warming world?
Proponents of organic agriculture say it leads to better soil management, uses fewer pesticides and fertilisers, and is a better ...
Local food to eclipse organic, as consumers begin to doubt definition
New consumers continue to enter the organic category for the first time, but the health halo cast by the US ...
Consumers easily mislead by false, scientific-looking info about food
Trivial scientific information presented in packaging in the form of graphs or formulas can lead consumers to believe a product ...
How anti-GMO groups twist food company stances on GMOs
When it comes to reporting the position of some of the world’s biggest food companies on genetically engineered foods, Friends ...
GMOs without foreign genes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Genetic modification of wheat genes to 'silence' protein fractions toxic to those with celiac disease holds promise for cereal development, ...
Similac baby formula will not get GMO label as Abbott rejects shareholder call
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
Legal experts say the Vermont bill requiring foods produced with genetic engineering to be labeled that now just needs Governor Peter ...
Academics Review: Organic food industry engaged in ‘multi-decade public disinformation campaign’
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
Heinz has vowed to vigorously defend itself after becoming the latest food giant to be targeted in a false advertising ...
