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2022

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Title Published Date
Coming to your dinner plate soon? Potentially unsafe GM tomatoes 08 January 2022
Revelations on Lancet editor who published letter slamming COVID lab leak theory as "conspiracy" 03 January 2022
Glyphosate damages blood-testis barrier and causes poor quality sperm 04 January 2022
Evolutionary plant breeding allows farming to respond to complexity of climate change 12 January 2022
Remembering Árpád Janos Pusztai, scientist who risked career to question safety of GMOs 13 January 2022
Time for Bayer/Monsanto to leave Hawaii after pleading guilty to violations that harm people and environment 13 January 2022
Deregulating GMOs in the UK 19 January 2022
New study highlights gulf between gene editing and conventional breeding 20 January 2022
GMWatch responds to Johnson government plans to weaken regulation around GMO research 20 January 2022
Westminster government wants to scrap environmental protections from GMO field trials 20 January 2022
Colombian court thwarts glyphosate spraying of coca crops 24 January 2022
GMO wheat in Argentina suffers from low yields 01 February 2022
GMWatch response to consultation on applications for nine genetically modified organisms for food and feed uses 01 February 2022
Scottish and Welsh ministers criticise "cack-handed" plans to scrap EU rules 01 February 2022
Transgenic cowpea may impact health and the environment 02 February 2022
Glyphosate and Roundup: All roads lead to cancer 05 February 2022
New GMOs: EU must invest in research on risks and detection methods 08 February 2022
More than 80 organisations call on European Commission to wait for court's clarifications on new GM 08 February 2022
Why GMO Bt cotton has never been a pro-poor technology 11 February 2022
One in three Americans has detectable levels of toxic weedkiller 2,4-D, study finds 10 February 2022
Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat – GM foods and the Pusztai affair, part I 13 February 2022
Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat – GM foods and the Pusztai affair, part II 13 February 2022
GMWatch publishes the full definitive account of the Pusztai affair 15 February 2022
GM Glofish are thriving in the wild in Brazil 15 February 2022
CRISPR/Cas in animals: Unintended changes and unexpected patterns of inheritance 16 February 2022
UK: Lack of guidance on regulatory change on GM plants is unsatisfactory – Lords Committee 16 February 2022
A short history of laboratory leaks and gain-of-function studies 19 February 2022
UK: Lords hammer gene editing plan 20 February 2022
Australia's revolving door: Former GMO regulator gets job with GMO industry lobby group 21 February 2022
House of Lords Committee says GMO amendment lacks clarity and detail 22 February 2022
Independent expert bodies contest key assertions of favourable EU glyphosate assessment 22 February 2022
The poison in our daily bread 22 February 2022
Deadly fungus resistant to fungicide jumps from farms to people 24 February 2022
Much hyped “seawater rice” is yet another non-GM success 25 February 2022
100% of members of UK government's GMO advisory body ACRE have potential or actual conflicts of interest 02 March 2022
New GM deregulated through the back door 04 March 2022
Coalition demands ban on Bt cowpea in Nigeria and neighbour West African countries 09 March 2022
FDA sued over failure to release documents on approval of GM salmon, planned Ohio production 11 March 2022
Saving the banana the non-GMO way 14 March 2022
UK: Green Party’s last ditch attempt to oppose deregulated release of gene-edited organisms 15 March 2022
UK: GMO safeguards under threat 15 March 2022
Agribusiness lobby against EU Farm to Fork strategy amplified by Ukraine war 17 March 2022
“Definitive historical account” of Monsanto provides motherlode of valuable material 22 March 2022
Gene-edited cattle pass FDA evaluation, GMO beef could enter food supply in two years 24 March 2022
India deregulates some gene-edited plants 02 April 2022
"Transgene-free" GMOs may be exempted from GMO regulations under false pretences 09 April 2022
Nigeria: Groups commend Senate as it pledges to enforce strict GMO regulation 19 April 2022
Latest research on glyphosate weedkillers justifies Mexico’s phaseout 28 April 2022
In memory of Sheldon Krimsky: “Truly adored professor” and fearless critic of GMOs 02 May 2022
European Commission launches consultation on regulation of new GM techniques 03 May 2022
We need your support 03 May 2022
How the ghouls of Monsanto influenced science and the media 04 May 2022
EU Commission serves big agribusiness' interests with latest consultation on new GMOs 05 May 2022
UK: Guidance on GMOs that "could have arisen through natural processes" is vague, unscientific, and irresponsible 06 May 2022
Australia approves GMO wheat and that’s bad news for rural people in Argentina 07 May 2022
Biotech firm embroiled in scandal after gene-edited pig heart infected with virus 09 May 2022
A "Precision Breeding" Bill to fast-track GMO deregulation in England 14 May 2022
The wrong answer to the wrong question 16 May 2022
New GMOs and pesticide reduction: Fast-track to failure 16 May 2022
The public don’t want deregulation of new GM technologies 16 May 2022
Environmental pesticide exposure alters gut microbes 16 May 2022
“Democratic deficit” of decision making on gene-edited and gene drive releases 18 May 2022
The financialisation of malaria in Africa 19 May 2022
Canadian government abandons safety assessments and transparency for new gene-edited foods 19 May 2022
UK environment secretary boosts GM gene-edited crops by misleading the public 23 May 2022
Scientists genetically engineer mother hens to kill their own male chicks before they hatch 25 May 2022
Syngenta and the war and hunger profiteers 24 May 2022
Glyphosate-tolerant crops increase tillage intensity, greenhouse gas emissions in US corn and soybeans – study 25 May 2022
Fury over plans for gene-edited GMOs to be sold unlabelled in the UK 26 May 2022
Gene-editing bill "a serious setback" for animal welfare, RSPCA warns 26 May 2022
Fresh produce industry urges caution over gene editing 26 May 2022
The public wants gene editing regulated – the government should listen 27 May 2022
Changes in single genes may threaten whole ecosystems 30 May 2022
EU Chemicals Agency fails to classify glyphosate as a human carcinogen 30 May 2022
BBC slammed for “lies” about gene-edited foods but refuses to correct its misreporting 01 June 2022
UK government's GMO deregulation bill fails to protect food and feed safety 01 June 2022
Scientific evidence of glyphosate link to cancer dismissed in ongoing EU assessment, new report reveals 09 June 2022
Peasant farmer organisation boycotts European Commission's biased consultation on new GM 09 June 2022
UK Action Alert: Tell your MP to regulate and label ALL GMOs 10 June 2022
UK government turns its back on science in GMO free-for-all bill 10 June 2022
UK Government's GMO deregulation bill is "unacceptable" – Scottish Government minister 11 June 2022
Leading molecular geneticist warns about the impact of GM (including gene editing) and glyphosate 14 June 2022
Gene-editing food plans for England are GM "sleight of hand" say critics 15 June 2022
"Major victory": Court orders EPA review of glyphosate's cancer and endangered species risks 19 June 2022
Leading Austrian food retailers want gene-edited foods safety tested and labelled 20 June 2022
German ministry warns on risks of new GM products 20 June 2022
Civil society to MPs: The gene editing bill must be amended 24 June 2022
"Sweeping regulatory reform" needed for glyphosate 24 June 2022
Regulatory Policy Committee: Government’s case for deregulation “not fit for purpose” 24 June 2022
New legal and scientific briefing finds serious problems with UK GMO deregulation bill 26 June 2022
Argentina's Bioceres says its GMO wheat gets key OK from US FDA 28 June 2022
Bt cotton approval in Bangladesh is "alarming" news 28 June 2022
UK: Objective science sneaks uninvited into Commons debate on gene editing deregulation Bill 05 July 2022
Urgent need for precautionary regulation of new GE techniques 07 July 2022
Journalist commissioned by agency to ghostwrite articles defending glyphosate and attacking IARC 08 July 2022
Traceability of new GMOs: The European Commission’s blinkers 08 July 2022
Argentina: GMO wheat banned in the province of Buenos Aires 11 July 2022
Weed management alternatives to glyphosate flourish 15 July 2022
EU Commission's secret policy scenarios show full GMO deregulation on the cards 21 July 2022
Prospective technology assessment essential for New GE in agriculture 21 July 2022
Supply of non-GMO soy from Ukraine is "sufficient" 22 July 2022
The battle over regulation of new breeding techniques in South Africa 25 July 2022
New study shows glyphosate crosses blood-brain barrier 29 July 2022
Databases of new GMOs are fuelling confusion 09 August 2022
GMWatch statement on European Commission-organised survey on new GMO deregulation 11 August 2022
Claims that “supercharged biotech rice” yields massively more grain debunked 14 August 2022
President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act includes massive taxpayer subsidy to GM crops 17 August 2022
Another GMO yield hype story debunked 24 August 2022
Roundup: World’s most popular weedkiller linked to convulsions in animals for first time 24 August 2022
Monsanto’s smear merchant, the Genetic Literacy Project, is now Bayer’s bully 31 August 2022
Silence from science community as NIH cancels grant to Wuhan Institute of Virology 31 August 2022
Gene editing – just label it! 06 September 2022
No GM food – no GM babies! 07 September 2022
Gene editing is not “precision breeding” – international scientists and policy experts 08 September 2022
Study is first to show glyphosate and Roundup disrupt human gut bacteria 09 September 2022
UK’s new Prime Minister “dangerous” for the environment, food and farming 10 September 2022
How stats are cooked to wrongly claim success for GM crops in Africa 10 September 2022
Impossible Foods seeks EU and UK approval for its GMO "fake meat" bleeding ingredient 13 September 2022
Court rules "QR" codes alone unlawful for GMO food labelling 14 September 2022
Extreme GM "extinction technology" of gene drives presented as "natural" 19 September 2022
Rat feeding study suggests the Impossible Burger may not be safe to eat 20 September 2022
Veteran science reporter accuses Kevin Folta of “amazing gaslighting” over Bayer’s cash 21 September 2022
Time to end GM herbicide-tolerant crops, says new report 28 September 2022
UK Genetic Technology Bill is not fit for purpose 28 September 2022
"Voices from the ground" make regulation better 28 September 2022
Many agbiotech scientists pushing for EU deregulation of GMOs have vested interests 29 September 2022
Gene-edited crops pioneer Calyxt crashes, giving the lie to deregulation claims 02 October 2022
European Commission’s biased road to deregulation of new GMOs 04 October 2022
Nigerians being ambushed into consuming GM foods 06 October 2022
Tanzania steps up vigilance on GMOs as Kenya okays GM foods 06 October 2022
Genetically engineered trees: The growing threat 11 October 2022
The advantages of current EU GMO legislation 20 October 2022
Exposed: How biotech giants use patents and new GMOs to control the future of food 20 October 2022
India: GM mustard approval looms amid conflicts of interest and sleight of hand 26 October 2022
India's GMO regulator paves way for commercial cultivation of GMO mustard 26 October 2022
EFSA wants to abandon detailed risk assessment of plants derived from new genetic engineering 02 November 2022
India's Supreme Court orders stay on environmental release of GM mustard 03 November 2022
Glyphosate exposure in pregnancy linked to lower birth weights 03 November 2022
GM purple tomatoes may soon appear in your local grocery store 09 November 2022
George Monbiot teams up with Mark Lynas and the ecomodernists to Reboot Food 14 November 2022
European Commission coaches GMO industry on how to gain support for deregulating GMOs 14 November 2022
GM soy injures the pancreas, rat feeding study shows 15 November 2022
UK citizens demand robust regulation of GMOs as radical legislation advances 18 November 2022
Kenya: High court suspends importation of GMO crops pending hearing of petition 28 November 2022
GM crop cultivation in Europe plummets 28 November 2022
India: Over 100 medical doctors call for halt on release of GM mustard 06 December 2022
UK: House of Lords committees slam Genetic Technology Bill 08 December 2022
Why claims that gene editing doesn’t involve insertion of foreign genes or DNA are false 12 December 2022
India: GM mustard must be "uprooted and burnt"/Bayer owns patent on similar GMO 12 December 2022
New GMOs, a risky distraction from climate and food security solutions 14 December 2022
New GM techniques and unintended genetic changes: EFSA overlooked most of the scientific findings 14 December 2022
Has another gene-edited pioneer crop disappeared from the market? 16 December 2022
UK readers: Support GMWatch for free each time you shop online 16 December 2022
SARS-CoV-2: Failed test case for FELIX GMO detection programme? 21 December 2022
Is the FELIX programme to detect genetically engineered DNA a game-changer for gene-edited foods? 21 December 2022
India: Aruna Rodrigues, initiator of court case that paused GM mustard, evicted from her home 31 December 2022

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