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Australian chemical agency joins EPA, Canada, Europe in rejecting IARC’s glyphosate cancer claim

Nicholas Staropoli | 
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, which serves as the country's chemical regulatory agency, has concluded that the herbicide glyphosate ...

Anti-biotech French scientist Séralini joins Indian campaign to block approval of GMO mustard

High-yielding GM Indian mustard technology and Dhara Hybrid Mustard-11 (DHM-11) is a path-breaking breakthrough in agriculture sector, developed indigenously by ...
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D-Day approaches for Uganda’s Biosafety law, which could pave way for GMO crops

Isaac Ongu | 
Ugandan scientists allied with farmers and students clash with anti-GMO activists over long-delayed biosafety bill that could lead to introduction ...
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Glyphosate battles: Why different European agencies came to different cancer conclusions

Andrew Porterfield | 
In the fight between European safety agencies, a conflict looms. The IARC chair behind controversial cancer hazard decisions also works ...
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Moms Across America claims GM salmon not kosher, but Jewish law, tradition say otherwise

Is anti-biotech group Moms Across America exploiting sacred religious laws to advance their GMO labelling agenda? ...
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11 GMO Myths, Part II: Do GMOs pose health and ecological dangers?

Michael Hess, Peter Hess | 
Part two, of a two-part series debunking myths about GMOs , deals with myths about GMO's purported negative impacts on ...

What’s more problematic than a Seralini paper? A plagiarized version of it

Alison McCook | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A 2012 paper co-authored ...
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The story behind Séralini’s disappearing GMOs-are-toxic study, and the journal that published it

Nicholas Staropoli | 
French GMO researcher Gilles-Éric Séralini published a new paper earlier this week, but a few days later it disappeared. Where ...
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FOIA emails reveal anti-GMO, pro-organic spin ‘A team’ led by Tom Philpott and Michael Pollan

Jon Entine, Nicholas Staropoli | 
A trove of new emails tied to former professor Charles Benbrook shines an ethically harsh light on the journalistic ethics ...
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European Food Safety Authority dismisses Seralini GMO rat food ‘contamination’ study

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a paper published ...
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Full IARC glyphosate report released; Anti-GMO target may have health benefits

Andrew Porterfield | 
Glyphosate is well known as a comparatively mild pesticide but has become a target of anti-GMO activists. They may be ...
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Séralini and other researchers critical of GMOs publish study claiming glyphosate may lead to liver, kidney problems, but scientists skeptical

Brian Bienkowski | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Long-term exposure to tiny ...
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Why regulators conclude glyphosate safe while IARC, alone, claims it could cause cancer?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Glyphosate joins apples, coffee, sunning and night shift work as an IARC "probable" carcinogen. But the real risk to humans ...
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The fall of Gary Hirshberg: From reformer to reactionary anti-science propagandist?

Bruce Chassy, Jon Entine | 
Gary Hirshberg is in the midst of rewriting his legacy from admired 'social responsibility' leader to crank apologist for disinformation ...

Seralini study another scientific outlier meant only as anti-GMO fodder

Steven Novella | 
Seralini, author of the infamous study alleging to show increased rates of tumors in rats fed GM food, the one ...
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Newsmax unmasked: How scare stories are manufactured by right wing anti-GMO activists

David Despain | 
Anti-GMO propaganda production usually emerges from leftist environmental and activist groups. But they have no peer in the pseudo-science emanating ...
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Organic industry and other funders behind Séralini’s anti-GMO studies

David Despain | 
Financial support for the release and publicity of the laboratory animal feeding study by Gilles-Eric Séralini comes from a range ...
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Scientist deconstructs Séralini’s PLOS GMO study: ‘Failed attempt at redemption’

Alison Bernstein | 
Séralini's latest paper is a thinly veiled attempt to address the consensus scientific criticism of his previous work, retracted by ...
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The Case for GMOs and Sustainability

Jon Entine | 
From conventional breeding to mutagenesis, none of our foods that we eat today is the product of Nature’s way. But ...
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Malpractice on Dr. Oz: Case of the maligned Arctic Apple

Henry Miller, Kavin Senapathy | 
Dr. Oz gets it wrong again on science, this time on genetic engineering on last week's show on the non-browning ...

Kevin Folta sets example on how to have civil conversation on GMOs

Kelsey Faivre | 
Dr. Kevin Folta, professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida, recently came to lecture ...
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ActionAid in Africa ensnared by its own ugly GMO cancer scare tactics

Isaac Ongu | 
Although the UK based NGO is scrambling to distance itself from its fear efforts in Uganda, GLP's African contributing writer ...

Academics Review gives UN agency ‘F’ for evaluation of glyphosate

The International Agency for Research on Cancer Monograph evaluation of certain insecticides and herbicides earns an F grade for failure ...
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5 reasons how Consumer Reports rejects science on GMOs

Andrew Porterfield | 
Consumer Reports is escalating its opposition to GMO foods. Now, even responses to subscriber/customer inquiries are met with the a ...
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Anti-GMO activists circulate Judy Carman’s latest suspect “study” to fan safety fears

Andrew Porterfield | 
Australian researcher whose study alleging GMO feed caused inflammation in pigs was widely discredited now claims more than 80% of ...
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Anti-GMO Activism and Its Impact on Food Security

Kevin Folta | 
Activists have dismissed the opinions of the world’s leading scientists to undermine public trust in the benefits of GM crops ...
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$25 million for “Factor GMO” study—Are the results pre-determined?

Jon Entine | 
What anti-GMO activists are billing as the most expensive and comprehensive longterm study of the impact of GMO crops and ...
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