2017

News and comment on genetically modified foods and their associated pesticides

2017

List of articles in category 2017
Title	Created Date
Mexican Supreme Court upholds lower court ban on GM corn	12 May 2017
India: Civil society, scientists, farmers and others condemn GEAC’s GM mustard approval	11 May 2017
India: GEAC okays commercial use of GM mustard	11 May 2017
March Against Monsanto – London	10 May 2017
Farmers rise to GM-free cheese demand	09 May 2017
GM crops stalled in 2016	09 May 2017
Monsanto moves to gene editing	09 May 2017
UK: Defra overrides public concern to write regulatory blank cheque for untested GM	08 May 2017
Dicamba drift a new danger for potato growers	08 May 2017
US EPA dismisses members of major scientific review board	08 May 2017
Unauthorised GM petunias found in the UK	08 May 2017
University of Saskatchewan prof Peter Phillips under fire for Monsanto ties	08 May 2017
Testbiotech files legal case against the EU authorisation of “toxic soybeans” produced by Bayer and Monsanto	05 May 2017
US taxpayers will pay government USD 3 million to persuade them to like GM foods	04 May 2017
Bt cotton in Burkina Faso: When theory does not match reality	03 May 2017
EU glyphosate evidence “written by Monsanto”	03 May 2017
Monsanto accused of hiring army of trolls to silence online dissent – court papers	03 May 2017
A product whose time has come: Glyphosate-free Roundup on sale in Austria	03 May 2017
Dear Bill Nye: Are you indeed a corporate Monsanto whore?	02 May 2017
WWF’s Better Cotton Initiative: Encouraging responsible production or just greenwash?	02 May 2017
Green MEP: EFSA should release full glyphosate studies	02 May 2017
Belgium bans glyphosate herbicide use for non-professionals	30 April 2017
Attacks on Cargill over non-GMO moves based on fear	30 April 2017
Glyphosate labels to become more restrictive, Health Canada announces	30 April 2017
Crushing blow to soy processors as Chinese grow wary on GMO	29 April 2017
Glyphosate specialists: EFSA’s data disclosure better than nothing, but of little help	27 April 2017
Glyphosate: Harmless tool or sneaky poison?	27 April 2017
World’s first GM fish factory could be in Canada	26 April 2017
US Action alert: Trump pushes GMOs in executive order	26 April 2017
Big Agro on campus	26 April 2017
Under fire, US National Academies toughen conflict-of-interest policies	25 April 2017
Asian farmers decry revival of Golden Rice field trials	25 April 2017
Glyphosate could be authorised for a further 15 years this week	24 April 2017
Syngenta defends GMO corn as merger shifts blame to China's door	24 April 2017
Scientific uncertainty and professional ethics as related to GMOs	24 April 2017
Burkina Faso sees cotton output rising 20% now it’s gone non-GMO	24 April 2017
“Misrepresentation” of Bt brinjal farmers in Bangladesh for corporate interest	21 April 2017
Monsanto isn’t feeding the world, it’s damaging food security – Monsanto Tribunal judges	21 April 2017
Stop pretending to be independent – MEP to EFSA boss Bernhard Url	20 April 2017
People's tribunal accuses Monsanto of possible “ecocide”	19 April 2017
Monsanto Tribunal judges slam Monsanto over violation of human rights	18 April 2017
Whitewash: The story of a weed killer, cancer, and the corruption of science	18 April 2017
New study on Monsanto weedkiller to feed into crucial EU vote	14 April 2017
Why Cornell Alliance for Science’s GMO food safety evaluation is meaningless	14 April 2017
GM alfalfa a threat to exports: National Farmers Union of Canada	13 April 2017
Monsanto sued for misleading labelling of Roundup herbicide	11 April 2017
California: Group opposes synthetic herbicide use at parks, trails	10 April 2017
Monsanto and others working to discredit and defund IARC	10 April 2017
Products of genome editing, synthetic biology are GMOs – German environment minister	10 April 2017
Monsanto influenced EPA on cancer risk research, Roundup lawsuits accuse	09 April 2017
India: Activists accuse Monsanto of “contaminating” local crops with “illegal” Roundup Ready Bt cotton	08 April 2017
GMO corn produced for ethanol has contaminated non-GMO food corn	07 April 2017
Researchers find glyphosate in pregnant women, worry about impact on infants	07 April 2017
MEPs slam ECHA’s ruling on glyphosate and call on Commission President for a ban	07 April 2017
The Pope and the pesticides	06 April 2017
ChemChina wins US approval for $43 billion Syngenta deal	05 April 2017
High glyphosate levels in mothers lead to shorter pregnancies and smaller babies	05 April 2017
France tables EU-wide non-agricultural pesticide ban	05 April 2017
“New Breeding Techniques” and synthetic biology - genetic engineering by another name	05 April 2017
Inside the academic journal that corporations love	04 April 2017
Farm consultant concerned over GMOs, use of glyphosate	04 April 2017
Roundup: Monsanto’s Superfund secret	04 April 2017
Europe clears Dow-DuPont merger but Indian regulator says deal likely to hurt competition	03 April 2017
Organic wheat dodges mycotoxin	03 April 2017
GM poplar tree trial in the Flemish countryside	31 March 2017
Three more Bt brinjal varieties to be released in Bangladesh	31 March 2017
California EPA becomes first US agency to declare that Roundup causes cancer	30 March 2017
EU member states still reject GMO cultivation – NGO and organic industry reactions	29 March 2017
Glyphosate Residue Free certification launched for US food products	28 March 2017
GMOs fail to secure support of EU Member States	28 March 2017
Indian govt asked to cut the price of Bt cotton seeds due to poor yield	27 March 2017
No-till EU farmers brace for glyphosate ban	26 March 2017
Cargill strengthens its non-GMO supply chain	25 March 2017
Why researchers are concerned glyphosate may cause cancer	25 March 2017
Green NGOs blame Monsanto for “buying science” to save glyphosate	25 March 2017
MEPs urge Juncker not to renew glyphosate licence	25 March 2017
Glyphosate and the crucial battle for independent science	25 March 2017
USDA drops plan to test for glyphosate residues in food	24 March 2017
New report shows glyphosate producers are “buying science”	23 March 2017
Medical school to examine whether professor published paper partly written by chemical company	23 March 2017
Princess Anne speaks in favour of GM crops	23 March 2017
Regulatory blank cheque for untested GM potatoes?	23 March 2017
Scientific panel criticizes EPA assessment of glyphosate	20 March 2017
IARC is under attack from industry	20 March 2017
Battle to get Europeans to accept GM crops is “probably lost”, says Bayer chief	20 March 2017
FIFRA science panel divided on EPA glyphosate cancer study	17 March 2017
EU chemicals agency sweeps glyphosate cancer evidence under the carpet	15 March 2017
EPA deputy accused of working with Monsanto to kill cancer study	15 March 2017
Glyphosate not classified as a carcinogen by ECHA	15 March 2017
Unsealed documents raise questions on Monsanto’s weedkiller	15 March 2017
Glyphosate: Discord at the US Environmental Protection Agency	15 March 2017
Conflicts of interest among National Academies’ GMO committee members	14 March 2017
California judge rules against Monsanto, allows cancer warning on Roundup	13 March 2017
Judge threatens to sanction Monsanto for secrecy in Roundup cancer litigation	11 March 2017
ECHA response heightens rather than alleviates conflict of interest concerns	09 March 2017
US Right to Know sues EPA for release of glyphosate documents	09 March 2017
Burkina Faso settles dispute with Monsanto over GM cotton	08 March 2017
Monsanto’s new GM tech to defeat corn rootworm “will work only briefly” – Scientific American	08 March 2017
EU experts accused of conflict of interest over herbicide linked to cancer	07 March 2017
Burger King’s GMO soy animal feed sourced from deforested lands in Brazil and Bolivia	07 March 2017

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