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Africans must not be used as guinea pigs for untested high-risk new GM technology

23 August 2017

African Farmer watering maize

RNAi technology should be unequivocally banned by all member states of the African Union

Bayer-Monsanto deal faces deeper scrutiny in Europe

23 August 2017

European antitrust regulators have opened an investigation into Bayer’s $56 billion deal with Monsanto, a transaction that would create the world’s largest integrated pesticides and seeds company

Canadians unknowingly eating GM food

22 August 2017

Canada has become the first country where a genetically modified animal is sold for human consumption, and Canadians may have unwittingly been eating it over the past year

US farmers confused by Monsanto weedkiller's complex instructions

22 August 2017

Monsanto’s instruction label for dicamba was singled out in a lawsuit as evidence that the product may be virtually impossible to use properly

Glyphosate: Why did the NZ EPA ignore the world authority on cancer?

19 August 2017

The New Zealand EPA commissioned its own report which found that glyphosate is “unlikely to be genotoxic or carcinogenic”, a significant departure from IARC’s conclusion

US EPA welcomed industry feedback before reversing pesticide ban, ignoring health concerns

19 August 2017

Before deciding to reverse a proposed ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, the EPA considered information from industry groups that wanted to keep it on the market – but not from public health or environmental groups

US: Twenty-eight states make it illegal for counties and cities to pass seed laws

18 August 2017

More than two dozen state legislatures have passed “seed-preemption laws” designed to block counties and cities from adopting their own rules on the use of seeds, including bans on GMOs

GMO food toxicity assessments need upgrading regarding exposure time and cumulative toxicity

18 August 2017

white rat in white gloved hands

Studies are not long enough and don’t test mixtures

No dicamba in 2018, weed expert urges

18 August 2017

A weed scientist said he couldn't recommend that dicamba be allowed in Arkansas next year after tests showed the herbicide's tendency to move off-target and damage other crops and vegetation

Biotech company studies GMO clover

17 August 2017

GM white clover is being field tested by a biotech developer to study improving forage digestibility in livestock

January 18, 2016

Published by Farmers Relief at January 18, 2016