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Consumers embrace non-GMO products in attempt to manage health through food choices
.... [A]bout a quarter of adults are trying to manage a health or medical condition through their food and beverage ...
Patricia Nanteza is Uganda’s agricultural biotechnology communications queen
You go to the annual National Agricultural Show in Jinja and she is there. You go to the Harvest Money ...
Video: John Innes Centre battles nutrient deficiency with iron-fortified biotech wheat
Iron is an important micro-nutrient, boosting haemoglobin levels in the blood. Many populations and particularly women and children are currently ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s ‘de facto’ GMO crop ban, mandatory labeling scheme ‘hinder innovation’
An excellent new paper from a trio of Danish researchers, two of whom are based out of the University of Copenhagen, argues that the European ...
Indian farmers grow illegal insect-resistant Bt eggplant to control destructive pests, as government lags on approval
Farmers in Haryana and experts fear widespread contamination of genetically modified (GM) brinjal or eggplant in the state with a ...
Viewpoint: ‘Political populism’ dictates Europe’s bureaucratic anti-GMO crop rules
As individuals, we’re able to decide whether a single action is acceptable to us, or deemed to be too risky ...
Kenya reconsidering GMO crop ban to support food security
Kenya is reconsidering its 2012 import ban on genetically modified maize as more than 1 million of its citizens require urgent humanitarian ...
FDA hires staff to streamline biotech animal evaluation amid calls for USDA regulation take over
The FDA has expanded its capacity to handle scientific and risk-based evaluation of biotech animals, the agency’s acting commissioner said ...
Podcast: Former FDA scientist Henry Miller says misguided regulation keeps safe biotech products off the market
In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first "GMO" pharmaceutical drug in the world, a new ...
Omega-3 oil from GMO plants equivalent to fish oil, human clinical study shows
Research .... has shown that key omega-3 fatty acids within GM plant oils are taken up and processed by the ...
Students in Ghana rally support for GMO crops
Some student associations in Ghana have waded into the ongoing debate over whether the country should commercialize genetically modified organisms ...
Podcast: Geneticist Kevin Folta responds after anti-biotech social media attacks led to his exclusion from Florida gardening event
Recently, University of Florida plant scientist Kevin Folta was invited to present a series of lectures at a seed saving ...
Viewpoint: Why grow GMO crops? Because they cut pesticide use 37%
The development and utilization of GMOs is not well understood by most consumers, causing them to be susceptible to misleading ...
‘Excessive’ regulations fuel unjustified consumer fear of CRISPR-edited crops, biologists warn
A Washington Post article, “The Future of Food,” discussed the methods we use to breed food crops but suffered from ...
Washington Post: CRISPR-edited crops require careful oversight and regulations to calm consumer food safety concerns
Thanks to a cutting-edge technology called gene editing, scientists can now turn plant genes “on” and “off” almost as easily ...
Viewpoint: 300 scientists say FDA’s plan to regulate CRISPR-edited animals as drugs will effectively shut down innovation
This proposed regulatory approach for genome editing in animals will make it cost prohibitive for both U.S. researchers and livestock ...
Canadian farmers anticipate access to new GMO crops as US-China trade deal nears completion
Canadian farmers may benefit from the trade dispute between the United States and China to the tune of hundreds of ...
Danish Council of Ethics urges EU to revamp GMO rules—’very new stance’ for Denmark
The Danish Council of Ethics recommends that legislation regarding the approval of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) be changed to help ...
Burkina Faso cotton production plummets after phasing out insect resistant Bt GMO crop
Cotton production in Burkina Faso is continuing its downward slide three years after the nation phased out the use of ...
African farmers look to genetic engineering in fight against plant diseases and pests
The benefits of genetic engineering will not come to fruition in Africa if the opponents of the technology continue to ...
Chinese import restrictions block Brazil’s access to latest GMO crops
Brazil Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo said on [April 25] that the country must work with China to reduce non-tariff barriers ...
Viewpoint: GMO crops could reduce, even eliminate, dangerous allergens in common foods
My brother was in his mid-20s when he developed a food allergy....[H]e discovered that his unpleasant side effects occurred whenever ...
European companies, farm groups urge EU to revamp regulations that effectively ban CRISPR gene edited foods
Dear Madam, dear Sir, We, the undersigned European organizations, are writing to reiterate our concern about the European Court of ...
Activists, scientists spar over effort to restore American chestnut tree with genetic engineering
The American chestnut tree once sustained a way of life. Pioneers used the tall, straight, and fast-growing tree for fences, ...
Danish researchers take on flawed assumptions behind Europe’s strict GMO regulations
The EU's policy on GMO is extremely strict and prevents new GMO crops from being authorized. The policy is based ...
Video: Where did the infamous needle-in-a-tomato anti-GMO image come from?
It’s become something of a personal quest: find the original “syringe-in-the-plant” image. For the last 5 years, I’ve been communicating ...
Australia adopts relaxed CRISPR gene-editing rules, ‘middle ground’ between US, EU extremes
The Australian government will not regulate the use of gene-editing techniques in plants, animals and human cell lines that do ...
