Canada
Let’s approach the GMO conversation with ‘cooler heads’ in 2019
As consumers strive to become more aware of food-production terms and practices, they often bludgeon farmers with a body of ...
Claim that Monsanto ‘secretly influenced’ glyphosate research prompts Health Canada to reevaluate Roundup safety
Health Canada [is] reviewing hundreds of studies used during the approval process for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Canada’s most ...
How one farmer and his family convinced a fearful skeptic that GMOs are safe
With fearmongering headlines and the general misunderstanding of what goes into our food (hello, image of a syringe in a ...
Replacing neonicotinoid pesticides is no easy task, Canadian farmers say
In 2015, the Canadian province [Ontario] instituted regulations requiring farmers to prove they have soil pest populations in corn and ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s GMO process-based crop regulations are a great way to kill innovation
In 2002, Europe establishing a new regulatory agency, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to resolve its regulation problems regarding ...
Biotech industry, anti-GMO activists face off over new NAFTA trade deal
The U.S., Canada and Mexico collectively addressed agricultural biotechnology like genetically modified organisms for the first time in the new ...
Viewpoint: USMCA North American trade deal sets precedent for sensible worldwide biotech crop regulations
In the crop science industry, China has a reputation for taking a long, long time to approve new genetically modified ...
Conflicting pesticide regulations may fuel needless food safety disputes
Since 1961, the Codex Alimentarius has provided a common set of standards for food safety, ranging from nutrition labeling to ...
Canada’s shady stem cell clinics
Doctors selling dubious stem cell treatments isn’t just a problem in the U.S., suggests a new study published in Regenerative Medicine. Clinics ...
North American trade deal includes ‘science-based’ gene editing regulations
Farmers and agribusinesses welcomed the agreement on a new North American trade pact, easing fears that the Trump administration’s tough ...
Canada’s suspect move to phase out neonicotinoids to ‘protect bees’ sets stage for US regulatory battle
Canada’s PMRA—its environmental regulatory agency, part of HealthCanada—rolled out for public comment its tentative decision to phase out almost all ...
Video: How CRISPR gene editing can protect and improve our food supply
Following the July European Court of Justice decision to regulate gene-edited crops as GMOs, a debate over the costs and ...
Ontario study: Some good news about glyphosate
These days we are exposed to a great deal of negative, one-sided and inaccurate information in the media and online ...
Canada, US embrace AquAdvantage GMO salmon, Brazil and China may be next
Genetically modified salmon firm AquaBounty has found “very enthusiastic” buyers in Canada, according to president and CEO Ronald Stotish. The ...
Did Canada overestimate the risks of neonicotinoid pesticides?
On Aug. 16, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency proposed to ban all outdoor uses of [the neonicotinoids] clothianidin and ...
Talking Biotech: 30-year study confirms environmental benefits of glyphosate use
Anti-GMO activists continue to warn about the dangers of glyphosate, but 30 years of data show the controversial herbicide is ...
Canada will phase out two kinds of neonicotinoids in 2021, citing harm to bee populations
The federal government will begin phasing out the outdoor use of nicotine-based pesticides beginning in 2021 ... Neonicotinoids, or neonics, ...
Ruling out natural causes, experts say ‘rogue breeder’ planted illegal GMO wheat in Canada
A handful of unwelcome plants growing on the side of a road in Alberta were all it took to stop ...
As fears of ‘rogue’ GMO wheat ease, Japan lifts ban on Canadian imports
One day [in] July [2017], a contractor noticed a few stalks of wheat growing by the side of an access ...
Did anti-GMO groups plant ‘rogue’ GMO wheat in Canada to deliberately disrupt markets to manipulate public opinion?
In the summer of 2017, a contractor applied the popular weed-killer glyphosate (brand name Roundup®) to clear some weeds along ...
Costly delays: Australia’s sluggish adoption of GMO crops carries a hefty price tag
The nation lost out on $431 million in economic gains, while also missing a chance to cut greenhouse gas emissions ...
