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European Commission science advisers say political decision limiting crop gene editing will leave Europe a technological straggler
Laws in the EU should be changed to allow plants developed through controversial gene-editing techniques to be more easily put on ...
With regulation bottlenecks surrounding biotechnology, how do gene-edited crops get from the lab to the farm?
Restrictive regulation of genome-edited crops could limit the future impact of these crops on agriculture. Globally, genome-edited crops are currently ...
Audio: Greenpeace, UK farmers and chemical industry square off over neonicotinoid pesticide ban
The debate over neonicotinoids continued ... during a BBC Radio segment as farmers, environmentalists and the chemical industry weighed in on ...
Should Europe’s 17-year-old GMO regulations apply to CRISPR-edited crops?
Dutch Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten said recently that CRISPR gene editing is indispensable for making agriculture more sustainable. Using this new technology, ...
Advances in technology spur calls for EU law amendments around GMOs
Researchers have come forward in support of a recent proposal from The Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, to ...
Despite EU gene-editing restrictions, Dutch government may greenlight CRISPR crop studies
Dutch agriculture minister Carola Schouten is considering allowing experiments involving a ‘light form’ of crop genetic modification even though the ...
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 ...
EU delays decision to re-approve ‘toxic’ copper compounds, widely used as pesticides in organic farming
EU countries have delayed a decision on whether or not to reauthorize the use of copper compounds — chemical substances ...
Countering the impact of climate change through new breeding techniques
It is imperative that we breed new varieties of plants to make agriculture more sustainable, given increasing food demand and ...
Where did Europe’s original dogs go?
The first farmers to arrive in Europe from the Middle East brought their dogs along with them, effectively wiping out ...
Video: European farmers push for greater access to GMO crops to ensure better harvests
From adapting to climate change to ensuring a sufficient supply of food, agricultural innovation has enormous potential to help farmers ...
Science-based regulations in US weaken influence of anti-GMO groups, study suggests
We applied institutional theory to examine the effect of differences in institutional pressures on strategic decisions of .... Greenpeace, in ...
EU parliament urged to reverse de facto ban on gene-edited crops
The European Union Court of Justice’s (ECJ) recent decision that new gene-editing techniques must go through the same lengthy approval ...
Excessive regulation, trade wars may give rise to black market for biotech crops, experts say
The rise in global trade wars and the recent EU decision to classify new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs) as genetically ...
Viewpoint: Success of first ever gene-edited soybean exposes folly of EU’s hostility to crop biotech
In the US, genome-edited crops have been grown and harvested for the first time – soybeans with a changed and ...
Viewpoint: Europe has traded crop biotechnology for ‘faith-based’ agroecology
We are living in a new Dark Age in Europe where innovation and technology are being rejected at an alarming ...
Post-Brexit, UK should abandon EU’s misguided biotech crop rules, researcher urges
Failure to diverge from some aspects of EU regulation of crop biotechnology and new breeding techniques (NBTs) after Brexit will ...
Viewpoint: Costly regulations prevent consumers from enjoying benefits of biotech crops
[T]hree papers [recently published] from research groups around the world detail attempts to make a new type of super-tomato: one ...
Europe stands alone in its ‘backward de facto ban’ of agricultural gene editing, European scientists warn
"We, as vice-chancellors of Swedish universities and higher education institutions, are very critical of a decision by the Court of ...
Can EU regulators keep CRISPR-edited plants out of Europe?
[With] gene-editing scissors, or the CRISPR-Cas method .... DNA sequences can be removed from or added to cells. The target ...
Sunflower pollen may protect bees from deadly diseases
[A] new study offers hope for a relatively simple mechanism to promote bee health and well-being: providing bees access to ...
Plant breeding evolution: How manipulating crops helped build civilization
Humans have been breeding plants for millennia. Our ancestors began to domesticate plants (and animals) at least 10,000 years ago, allowing ...
GMO controversy is a political debate, not a food safety issue, farmers say
According to a recent article in the New York Times, most consumers don’t know or realize that for decades they ...
EU politician says Parliament ‘misrepresents’ its own pesticide safety data
A conservative agricultural spokesperson, has spoken out against a report on pesticides which she says “misrepresents” the findings of the ...
UK officials say they will enact ‘science-based’ biotech crop regulations
[On September 14th] the I published an article regarding the future of gene editing following a letter from 30 leading scientists to ...
Experts press UK regulators for clarity on biotech crop regulations
The John Innes Centre is today joining a call for the [UK] government to address the implications of a European ...
Viewpoint: EU’s new gene-editing rules show failure of scientific leadership
On 25 July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that plants bred via recent mutagenesis techniques would fall ...
