2018 articles

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2018

List of articles in category 2018
Title	Created Date
A YEAR IN REVIEW PART 1: GMO industry suffers major setbacks	13 January 2019
Old lobby, new language	30 December 2018
Please support GMWatch	28 December 2018
Experts: Dicamba will come for trees, specialty crops in 2019	28 December 2018
Pamela Ronald led chemical industry front group efforts	28 December 2018
Groups urge Canada to reject new US-style GM food labelling	27 December 2018
GMO label to become more visible in Russia, Eurasia	27 December 2018
The GMO issue reaches boiling point in India	23 December 2018
USDA’s new GMO food disclosure rule will leave consumers in the dark	21 December 2018
GM Bt brinjal seeds face hurdles, US agency says in report on Bangladesh	20 December 2018
Help strengthen GMWatch in 2019	20 December 2018
Cutting corners on consent	19 December 2018
Exposure to glyphosate herbicide linked to Parkinson's disease	19 December 2018
Campaigners demand ban on GMOs in Nigeria	18 December 2018
Intrexon/AquaBounty receive regulatory exemption for GM tilapia	18 December 2018
Africans paid 69 cents an hour to be bitten in GMO mosquito trial	18 December 2018
Big tongues and extra vertebrae: The unintended consequences of animal gene editing	16 December 2018
The dubious virtue of apostasy – review of Lynas's new book	14 December 2018
Big business circles EU’s consumer protections	14 December 2018
How France and Germany are ousting glyphosate in search for healthy soils, pesticide-free crops	13 December 2018
EU reports on pesticides are copy-pasted from industry dossiers	13 December 2018
New analysis reveals shortfalls of EU pesticide authorisation system and proposes solutions	13 December 2018
The "innovation principle" trap	12 December 2018
Koch, Spiked, and Mark Lynas: Uncomfortable bedfellows?	12 December 2018
Food safety: More transparency, better risk prevention	11 December 2018
China set to shock markets with low glyphosate residue limits in food imports	11 December 2018
Opposition mounts as Arkansas moves to roll back dicamba ban	11 December 2018
Pesticides – MEPs propose blueprint to improve EU approval procedure	10 December 2018
Maize, maize everywhere, but where will Tanzania sell its surplus?	08 December 2018
The weedkiller in our food is killing us	06 December 2018
EU Patent Office undermines ban on patenting of plants and animals from conventional breeding	06 December 2018
The US military wants to hunt enemy subs with GM sea life	06 December 2018
EU Parliament report reveals shortfalls of current pesticide authorization system	06 December 2018
Mark Lynas slammed for exploiting African farmers’ images to promote GMOs	06 December 2018
Beekeepers say problems from weedkiller, dicamba, pose a threat	06 December 2018
The pesticide generation: Children on the front line	06 December 2018
Gene drive symposium	06 December 2018
Chinese scientist who claimed gene-editing success now missing: Report	04 December 2018
We need a temporary moratorium on using gene editing to create babies	04 December 2018
The CRISPR baby scandal gets worse by the day	04 December 2018
Industry-funded pesticide data problematic, study shows	04 December 2018
New GMOs: Does the Commission want them to be traceable?	30 November 2018
GM bacteria in animal feed products are spreading resistance to antibiotics	30 November 2018
Gene-edited babies: China halts work of He Jiankui	30 November 2018
Keep GM wheat out – Manitoba's largest farm policy organization	30 November 2018
Bayer to sell businesses, cut jobs after Monsanto deal	29 November 2018
United Nations hits the brakes on gene drives	29 November 2018
"Father of Green Revolution in India" slams GM crops as unsustainable and unsafe	29 November 2018
Failure of scientific self-regulation means lawmakers must ban designer baby experiments	29 November 2018
GM mosquito trial sparks "Sorcerer’s Apprentice" lab fears	28 November 2018
Editing babies? We need to learn a lot more first	28 November 2018
Non-GMO food and feed industry welcomes ECJ ruling to provide legal certainty	28 November 2018
The Gates Foundation’s Ceres2030 plan pushes agenda of agribusiness	27 November 2018
Persistence of pesticides threatens European soils – study	27 November 2018
Bayer pursued Monsanto despite weedkiller lawsuits and executive’s concern	27 November 2018
French government starts phase-out of glyphosate with online farmer platform, herbicide tax	27 November 2018
Please support GMWatch for Giving Tuesday	26 November 2018
Claims for GM babies underscore need for global ban	26 November 2018
China baby gene editing claim "dubious"	26 November 2018
Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies	26 November 2018
Australian city beats dengue fever using special mosquitoes	26 November 2018
Soybeans from Ukraine: GM and undeclared	25 November 2018
Over 1m tonnes of animal feed in Europe may contain banned GMOs: Report	24 November 2018
Minister claims GM mosquitoes didn’t work	24 November 2018
Tanzania orders destruction of Monsanto/Gates’ GM trials due to illegal use for pro-GM propaganda	23 November 2018
Bayer fights transparency of industry studies on pesticides, GMOs	23 November 2018
Scientist unveils blueprint to save bees and enrich farmers	23 November 2018
Shock as Tanzanian government bans GMO trials	23 November 2018
EU Scientific Advice Mechanism in lockstep with US government, GMO lobby	22 November 2018
Missouri farmer charged with illegally using dicamba weedkiller	22 November 2018
US judge selects first case in federal Monsanto weedkiller litigation	21 November 2018
Roundup maker Monsanto appeals $78.5 million verdict over Bay Area man's cancer	21 November 2018
Bound to fail: The flawed scientific foundations of agricultural genetic engineering (part 2)	20 November 2018
Do not betray Africa on synbio and gene drives	20 November 2018
Are GMO foods safe? Don’t ask the New York Times	18 November 2018
Zambian citizens call on leaders to raise concerns on GMOs at meeting in Egypt	18 November 2018
Africa doesn't need GMO mosquitoes, says African scientist	15 November 2018
GM American chestnut tree a "Trojan Horse" to open door to commercialize GM trees	15 November 2018
South Africa government rejects Monsanto’s triple stacked GM drought-tolerant maize	15 November 2018
UK’s chemical Catch-22	14 November 2018
Mayan communities and organizations denounce illegal sale and planting of GM soy in Mexico	14 November 2018
Caymans research unit to stop releasing GM mosquitoes	13 November 2018
Bound to fail: The flawed scientific foundations of agricultural genetic engineering (part 1)	13 November 2018
New GMO technologies represent major challenges to non-GMO supply chain, certification	12 November 2018
Cleaning up after GM: Is it possible?	12 November 2018
"Troubling allegations" prompt Health Canada review of studies used to approve glyphosate	12 November 2018
German minister for environment pushing for end of glyphosate	11 November 2018
Sick couple pushes to fast-track Roundup cancer trial	11 November 2018
GMO potato creator now fears its impact on human health	09 November 2018
Trump's EPA sides with Monsanto, extends dicamba two more years	09 November 2018
Pest becoming resistant to stacked-trait Bt maize in South Africa	09 November 2018
Monsanto resistance continues to build following landmark verdict	09 November 2018
Prof Chris Portier hits back at EFSA director	09 November 2018
Release of risky GM mosquitoes in Burkina Faso highly unethical	09 November 2018
Baysanto patent on severed broccoli revoked	08 November 2018
Florida monarch butterfly populations have dropped 80% since 2005	08 November 2018
Is the Pentagon modifying viruses to save crops — or to wage biological warfare?	08 November 2018
European Parliament group finds pesticides in hair samples across Europe	08 November 2018
Compromised ethics run rampant in nutrition research	07 November 2018
Brazilian researchers link rise in colon cancer to increase in pesticide use	07 November 2018

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