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GOP wedge issue: Republicans broaden attacks on COVID guidelines that factor race into treatment prioritizations
Republicans are accusing the Biden administration of racism — against white people. The administration’s recommendation that race and ethnicity be ...
Combined flu shot and COVID booster? Moderna hopes to have one ready by 2023
Moderna hopes to market a combined booster vaccination for COVID-19, influenza and RSV — a common respiratory virus — as ...
Biden EPA moves to ban toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ commonly found in drinking water and require chemical company assessments
The Biden administration laid out a sweeping strategy on [October 18] for grappling with widespread contamination from toxic “forever chemicals” ...
US (innovation and biotechnology) vs Europe (regulation and organic): Which is the best path to a sustainable farming future?
Creating a climate-friendly food system is cooking up a showdown between the U.S. and the European Union. The two power ...
Viewpoint: Agricultural Cold War? ‘EU and US are veering toward a high-stakes stand-off over the global food system’
In the race to reduce the damage that agriculture is wreaking on the climate, the EU and the U.S. are ...
Conservative opponents of healthcare for trans youths draw on anti-abortion tactics
A rash of bills introduced in at least 20 states would limit trans youth’s access to gender-affirming care — and ...
Facing shifting science and political blowback, Facebook reverses its ban of ‘fringe’ Wuhan lab-leak theory
[A Facebook] policy tweak arrives as support surges in Washington for a fuller investigation into the origins of Covid-19 after ...
EU pitches 23 ‘actions’ to achieve Farm 2 Fork targets, including promoting organic food in schools
The European Commission is counting on a suite of measures including new procurement schemes, promotional funds and research initiatives to ...
EU ‘Green Deal’ could mandate 50% cut in pesticide use, include tax on ‘most dangerous’ chemicals
The [European] Commission proposed a 50 percent cut in the risk and use of pesticides by 2030 as part of ...
Limited consumer demand could hinder Europe’s plans to reach 25% organic food production
EU plans to make over 25 percent of Europe’s farmland organic by 2030 will depend on changes in consumption patterns, ...
Anti-GMO Europe wants to fight climate change. Will it approve the eco-friendly (but GM) Impossible Burger?
Impossible Foods’ efforts to enter the European market have faced a 15-month-long battle over the key ingredient that gives its ...
Foreshadowing repeat of spring chaos, Trump Administration leaves vaccine distribution to individual states
Federal and state officials agree that the nation’s 21 million health care workers should be first in line [for a ...
Competitive surge in nationalism is shaping the race to develop COVID vaccines
From the latex oozing naturally from the rubber trees in places like Vietnam, Malaysia and Liberia to vaccine ingredients made ...
EU opposition to GM crops encourages hunger in developing nations, US trade official warns
A senior U.S. official blasted EU plans for greener farming on [October 27], accusing Brussels of risking worldwide starvation by ...
Top EU farm officials back gene editing, call for efforts to assuage concern about ‘unintended impacts’
The European Commission’s top agriculture civil servant said [October 1] he supports controversial gene-editing technologies, but called for more “assurances” ...
Viewpoint: US faces policy nightmare if China wins race to produce a safe, effective COVID vaccine
It’s very possible a Chinese [COVID-19] vaccine could be the first to succeed in Phase III trials. If Warp Speed ...
As Trump administration retreats, Germany poised to replace US as main supporter of world health initiatives
In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s confirmation that the U.S. will exit the World Health Organization — leaving ...
Democratic strategists urge Joe Biden to take on Monsanto to win rural support
The Biden campaign wants to undercut President Donald Trump’s sweeping victory across rural America in 2016 by making its case ...
EU blocks Austria’s planned glyphosate ban, rejecting claim that weedkiller harms human health
The European Commission has blocked Austria from implementing a planned ban on the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, a document seen by ...
Trump rebuff: Administration-backed Idaho law banning transgender athletes from participating in school sports that match their gender identity on hold
Idaho’s "Fairness in Women’s Sports Act" [that bars transgender women from participating in school sports] will now be on pause ...
EU environmental groups say proposed pesticide rules would ‘water down’ protection for pollinators
EU countries .... expressed their preference for a way of regulating potentially bee-harming pesticides that has been contested by environmental ...
Is the FDA facing political pressure to rush through approval of untested COVID-19 vaccines to fit Trump’s political schedule?
President Donald Trump has promised that there will be a coronavirus vaccine before the year is out. But public health ...
Contact tracing promises to curb the spread of COVID-19 in New York–if privacy fears can be overcome
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers will be asked to disclose personal information this month as part of the city’s ...
Europe fears empty grocery stores amid coronavirus outbreak, but food companies say there’s plenty to go around
Naked supermarket shelves and masked shoppers hoarding pasta have become the iconic images of the coronavirus crisis so far. But ...
‘Just an overreaction’: Inside the world of coronavirus denialism
I created a faux Twitter account and set about building my own information bubble. My objective: Inhabit the world of ...
Europe considers accelerated GMO import approval process to facilitate mini US trade deal
Brussels is ready to offer to speed up the approval process for genetically modified organisms imported into the EU, as ...
EU review of strict CRISPR crop rules dominated by biotech industry, anti-GMO groups allege
The EU is launching a consultation as part of an info-gathering exercise for a Commission study on “the status of ...
Leaked proposals suggest EU may assess CRISPR gene editing to ‘improve sustainability’ of food production
More leaked drafts of the Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy reveal how the [European] Commission’s plan to make EU food ...
