News and comment on genetically modified foods and their associated pesticides 
- 41. NGOs query GM mosquito success risk ...
- (2016)
- Admissions by Oxitec, the UK company partnering with the Mosquito Research and Control Unit in Cayman, that the space created by any successful eradication of the Aedes aegypti mosquito through the use ...
- Created on 06 October 2016
- 42. Court documents reveal Oxitec’s GM mosquitoes could cause surge in different disease-carrying mosquitoes ...
- (2016)
- GM mosquito company admits a major risk of its technology We don’t agree with the implication below that larvicides are a benign approach to mosquito control, as some are highly toxic. But that small ...
- Created on 30 September 2016
- 43. Zika virus tool predicts most interventions to be cost-effective – except GM mosquitoes ...
- (2016)
- Oxitec's GMO mosquito technology is estimated to cost $1.9 million for the first year and $384,000 every year after for a city of 50,000 inhabitants A study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease ...
- Created on 23 May 2016
- 44. 270,000 people oppose GMO mosquito trial in Florida and criticize FDA’s review ...
- (2016)
- GMO mosquitoes could cause more problems than they solve EXCERPT: the FDA fails to evaluate key issues surrounding the releases, including safety to human health, potential for the experimental mosquitos ...
- Created on 16 May 2016
- 45. GM mosquito firm investigated by lawyers as share price plummets ...
- (2016)
- Investment analysts say Oxitec’s GM mosquito technology “won’t work, is way too expensive, and is many years from generating even minuscule revenue”. Now three law firms have announced they are investigating. ...
- Created on 26 April 2016
- 46. US action: Say no to GM mosquitoes in Florida Keys ...
- (2016)
- There are no data from any of the British biotech firm Oxitec’s other trials that show a reduction in mosquito-borne diseases People in the US can send the US FDA a letter urging it not to approve ...
- Created on 10 April 2016
- 47. GM mosquitoes no danger to humans or environment – US FDA ...
- (2016)
- Florida Keys Mosquito Control District wants to test Oxitec’s mosquitoes in a neighborhood north of Key West The US FDA seems to be basing its opinion that there will be ‘no harm’ from an open air ...
- Created on 13 March 2016
- 48. GM mosquito project shelved in Malaysia and Brazil ...
- (2015)
- ... adult male mosquitoes would need to be released per week to suppress a wild population of only 20,000 mosquitoes, which was impractical on any scale. “There is no evidence of any reduction in the risk ...
- Created on 06 March 2015
- 49. FDA debates releasing GM mosquitoes into Florida Keys ...
- (2015)
- GMO “solution” to problem that doesn’t exist More information on the risks of Oxitec’s GM mosquitoes: http://www.genewatch.org/sub-566989 http://www.genewatch.org/article.shtml?als%5Bcid%5D=566989&als%5Bitemid%5D=567324 ...
- Created on 26 January 2015
- 50. Could GM mosquitoes pave the way for a tropical virus to spread? ...
- (2015)
- ... engineering disease-carrying mosquitoes to spread their sterility to wild populations is a dumb way of combating the disease in question. As one entomologist explains, "There's evolutionary potential ...
- Created on 09 January 2015