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DNA testing companies launch privacy ‘coalition’ to protect consumer data
Genetic testing companies are forming a new coalition on best practices for handling DNA information and to promote the industry ...
Viewpoint: We don’t need another study to convince us that gene-edited babies are a bad idea
He [Jiankui] attempted to disable a gene called CCR5 by producing a variant that has been shown to confer resistance ...
Viewpoint: FDA plan to treat gene-edited animals like ‘walking drugs’ will stifle agricultural innovation
Nov. 3 marked One Health Day (www.onehealthcommission.org) – an international campaign to recognize the importance of a broad, trans-disciplinary approach ...
Viewpoint: Federal regulators should clamp down on ‘misleading’ non-GMO advertising
For a long time, American consumers .... could read a food label or product advertisement and trust that the information ...
Regulators reverse Obama-era ban on GMOs, neonicotinoid pesticides in wildlife refuges
The Interior Department announced plans [August 3rd] to reverse a rule that banned the use of pesticides in national wildlife ...
Viewpoint: USDA made right decision to not over-regulate CRISPR gene-edited crops
The future of farming just got a lot brighter. On March 28, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced that his department ...
Viewpoint: ‘Circumventing evolution’ with genetically modified trees puts ecosystems at risk
That many forests in the United States are suffering health crises is not in question. Much of this troubling condition, ...
Viewpoint: We need strong federal funding to tackle brain disorders
Because of breakthroughs like those of the Human Genome Project, and the development of new scientific tools and techniques, we ...
Recombinetics joins battle over whether USDA or FDA should oversee gene-edited animal regulations
Editor's note: Tammy Lee Stanoch is the president & CEO of Recombinetics, an animal gene-editing company based in St. Paul, Minnesota ...
Viewpoint: How the EU’s protectionist anti-GMO trade policy hurts US farmers
Editor’s note: Bernard Goldstein, MD is a professor emeritus and dean emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of ...
Bernie Sanders, 10 Senate Democrats push USDA for ‘consumer-friendly’ GMO label
Senate Democrats are pushing the Agriculture Department to create a labeling standard for products made with genetically modified organisms (GMO) that ...
Democratic lawmakers push for stricter GMO labeling
In a recent letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, twenty-two House Democrats urged the department to finalize a federal rule ...
Chipotle got rid of food with ‘scary-sounding chemicals’—So why are customers getting sick?
[Editor's note: Joseph Perrone is the Chief Science Officer at the Center for Accountability in Science.] [Spring 2017], Chipotle reinforced its ...
Opinion: USDA ‘should rely upon science and facts’ to update GMO regulations
[Paul Enríquez is a lawyer and scientist currently doing research in structural and molecular biochemistry at North Carolina State University.] ...
Anti-GMO groups pressure USDA to not approve eucalyptus trees engineered to withstand freezing temperatures
Groups are urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) not to green light the commercial growth of a genetically engineered ...
Former agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack: Environment benefits when farmers plant GMO
[Editor's note: Tom Vilsack is a former agriculture secretary under President Obama and currently serves as President and CEO of the U.S ...
Our food system isn’t broken, it’s flourishing — and GMO crops are a big reason why
[Editor's note: Randy Krotz is CEO of the US Farmers & Ranchers Alliance.] Activists and others [say] the food system [is] broken, ...
Should US spend more on agricultural R&D to make food cheaper, more sustainable?
[Editor's note: Margaret Zeigler is executive director of the Global Harvest Initiative, a private-sector voice for productivity growth throughout the agricultural ...
Should US spend more on agricultural R&D to make food cheaper, more sustainable?
[Editor's note: Margaret Zeigler is executive director of the Global Harvest Initiative, a private-sector voice for productivity growth throughout the agricultural ...
Should US spend more on agricultural R&D to make food cheaper, more sustainable?
[Editor's note: Margaret Zeigler is executive director of the Global Harvest Initiative, a private-sector voice for productivity growth throughout the agricultural ...
Should US spend more on agricultural R&D to make food cheaper, more sustainable?
[Editor's note: Margaret Zeigler is executive director of the Global Harvest Initiative, a private-sector voice for productivity growth throughout the agricultural ...
New EPA head Scott Pruit poised to challenge ‘politics driven’ farm chemical regulations
[Editor’s note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist, and was the founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology.] ...
Will Trump cut funding of UN agency accused of ‘shoddy science’ for designating glyphosate probable carcinogen?
Editor's note: This article discusses the International Agency (IARC) for Research on Cancer, a sub-group of the World Health Organization ...
EPA panel begins evaluation of carcinogenicity of glyphosate
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding four days of meetings, beginning December 13, aimed at examining the evidence that ...
House committee to grill NIH over financial support for UN IARC agency accused of science bias
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is being called ... to explain why it gave tens of millions of dollars to the ...
Members of Congress want answers on EPA’s delayed evaluation of glyphosate
When Congress reconvenes [in September], lawmakers will continue to press the Environmental Protection Agency about why it’s withholding their report ...
Organic Consumers Association organizes boycott of brands that use QR code GMO labels
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is asking consumers to boycott brands that refuse to expressly label products made with genetically ...
House to vote on GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The House is expected ...
