gmo
Impossible Foods cancels plans for McDonald’s GMO plant-based burger
Impossible Foods is no longer trying to win a coveted deal to supply McDonald’s Corp with plant-based burgers, telling Reuters ...
AquaBounty aims to win over consumers before its GMO salmon hits US markets in 2020
Only in the past five years has it become possible to raise thousands of healthy fish so far from the ...
Skepticism of GMOs, CRISPR won’t slow crop biotech innovation, biologist predicts
Genetically modified crops have the potential, if widely adopted, to help feed the world and vastly change the crop input ...
Petition urges India’s Supreme Court to halt illegal GMO crop cultivation, citing ‘irreversible’ genetic contamination
The Supreme Court on [Jan 6] issued a notice in the matter of illegal planting of non-approved Genetically Modified (GM) ...
Neurologist Steven Novella: Greenpeace opposition to Golden Rice approval will be ‘enduring stain’ on activist group’s reputation
[T]he Philippines have just approved Golden Rice as safe for human and animal consumption .... The Philippines is the first ...
Plant-based ‘Impossible Sausage’ set to debut
Impossible Foods just announced a new product: pork. And thanks to the new fake pork, there’s also sausage. It’s not ...
GMO cotton boosted farmer incomes $52 billion over 20 years, study finds
The area planted to biotech cotton in 2018 reached 24.9 million hectares, a 3% increase from 24.1 million hectares in ...
GMOs, biosensors and biopreservation: Tools that can fight global hunger by reducing food spoilage
We're feeding an ever-increasing number of people. Getting the rest of the way by 2030 will require every innovation we ...
China poised to approve 192 GMO crops, including insect-resistant, glyphosate-tolerant corn
China is set to award safety certificates for genetically-modified corn, paving the way for domestic production as the world’s most-populous ...
Indian farmers highlight higher yields from banned GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton to defy nation’s biotech crop rules
As farmers [headed] to Yavatmal in Maharashtra to showcase post-harvest success stories of banned [herbicide-tolerant] cotton on [Jan. 5], their ...
Kenyan approval opens door to spring planting of country’s first GMO, insect resistant Bt cotton that increases yields by 300%
The government is set to provide .... the initial BT cotton seeds to farmers to plant during the forthcoming March/April ...
Confusion over GMO label exemptions hinders Jan. 1 rollout of USDA bioengineered food rules
The USDA regulation mandating identification of food ingredients with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) went into effect on New Year’s Day ...
Viewpoint: Confused about GMOs and pesticides? Here’s a science-based handbook for combating anti-biotech fallacies
The risk posed by junk science meant to skew our perception of food safety and biotechnology cannot be overstated ...
Most food flavorings could be made with GMO microbes, sparing large amounts of farmland
In future, the majority of natural flavors could be produced from microscopic armies of microbes programmed to convert sugars into ...
Anti-GMO groups in the Philippines launch campaign challenging Golden Rice approval
The Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG) condemned [Dec. 19] the approval of the genetically-modified crop [Golden ...
Public will accept CRISPR if they trust scientists who develop the technology, sociologist says
As a sociologist who studies food and agriculture, I’m frequently asked whether the public is going to accept gene-edited foods ...
Kenya green lights GMO Bt cotton after successful 5-year field trial
The Kenyan Cabinet, chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta, has approved the commercial planting of Bt cotton after the 5-year field ...
GMO plants produce antibiotic to fight off deadly bacterial infection—without harming environment
Scientists from the University of Glasgow have discovered a safe and novel method that can safeguard important crops from the ...
FDA rejects Center for Food Safety objections to key ingredient in GMO Impossible Burger
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is responding to objections that it received from the Center for Food ...
South Australia lifts GMO crop moratorium, but Green Party vows to reinstate ban in 2020
The state government announced [Dec. 19] it would publish regulations in the last Government Gazette of the year, lifting the ...
Philippines is first! Long-delayed Vitamin A-enhanced Golden Rice greenlighted, bucking activist opposition
The fortified food addresses vitamin A deficiency, which kills an estimated 670,000 children each year ...
Golden Rice inventors: ‘Why our life-saving GMO crop is still not getting to the impoverished people who need it’
Until science-based policy overrules a smear campaign against Golden Rice, VAD-induced death and blindness will continue ...
Podcast: Vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit explains the ‘dos and dont’s’ of battling scientific misinformation
Paul Offit has forged a second career as an influential spokesman for scientific thinking ...
Philippines approves nutritionally-enhanced GMO Golden Rice for human consumption
After rigorous biosafety assessment, Golden Rice “has been found to be as safe as conventional rice" by the Philippine Department ...
GMO salmon labeling rule that producer says ‘targets’ its product added by Sen. Murkowski to 2020 spending bill
Genetically modified salmon supplier AquaBounty is criticizing “vague” new requirements for GM-salmon labeling that were included in the Fiscal Year ...
US revising GMO, gene editing rules to ensure health and environmental safety, protect innovation
.... More than 30 years have passed since the three federal agencies that deal with agricultural products of biotechnology — ...
China may balk at announced purchase of $50 billion in US crops
China ramping up agricultural purchases to the level that the U.S. is demanding would be a problem and Beijing would ...
