Jacqui Fatka
Mexico’s approaching 2023 ban on importing GM corn could lead to a major crisis — for Mexico and the US
Mexico’s proposed GM corn ban, expected to take effect in 2024, has the potential to increase the country’s food insecurity, ...
‘FDA stifles innovation’: Livestock farmers urge federal government to put USDA in charge of animal gene regulations
Livestock and crop groups sent a letter to USDA renewing calls for the department to advance its own animal gene editing regulations ...
Federal court backs EPA order allowing farmers to use banned dicamba weedkillers until July 31
EPA has defended its decision to allow farmers to continue to use three vacated dicamba herbicides -- XtendiMax, FeXapan and ...
Biotech experts, farmers call for updated US gene-edited crop, animal rules at Senate Agriculture Committee hearing
In opening comments during a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on [March 12], ranking member Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) said ...
Bipartisan Accurate Labels Act takes aim at ‘misleading, unnecessary and confusing’ food marketing, authors say
Legislation introduced by Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.) and Kurt Schrader (D., Ore.), the Accurate Labels Act, would provide clear, ...
Wheat producers urge EPA to reject activist petition banning pre-harvest glyphosate use on oats
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on a September 2018 petition from several special interest groups to ...
New bill would give USDA primary responsibility to regulate lab-grown meat
In an effort to codify an agreement regarding oversight of lab-grown meat between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety ...
Farm groups challenge petition for tighter EPA insecticide rules, saying restrictions could hamper sound conservation
Nearly 100 organizations recently submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency encouraging the agency to reject a petition related to seeds treated with ...
FDA lifts 2016 import ban on GMO AquAdvantage salmon, confirms fish safe to eat
The Food & Drug Administration announced [March 8] that it will be deactivating a 2016 import alert that prevented genetically ...
Farmers, ag companies launch court challenge of California’s Prop 65 listing of glyphosate
On [Feb. 20], a national agricultural coalition presented arguments for a preliminary injunction before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern ...
After labeling bill fails in Canada, GMO critics press retailers not to sell GM foods
Members of the Canadian Parliament voted against approving mandatory labeling of genetically modified [GMO] foods in a vote on May ...
Agricultural industry weighs in on Senate draft GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Establishing a national framework ...
Vermont’s GMO labeling bill reminiscent of overturned rBST labeling law
Vermont is again poised to be the one who steps out on labeling requirements. In 1995 it mandated the labeling ...
Secretary of Agriculture backs GMOs, farming ‘collaboration’ in House hearing
The topic of genetically modified food has come up in a handful of hearings lately, and the message from this ...
