Responding to pressure for a tougher stance and increased transparency on the licensing of genetically modified organisms, the European Food Standards Agency has emphasised its commitment to ...

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has invited Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas to a meeting to brief him on EFSA’s scientific and procedural approach to food safety issues, following the ...

The Spain-based non-profit GRAIN recently revealed the agribusiness takeover of Conabia, the National Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology of Argentina. Conabia is the GMO assessment body ...

"Most EU governments want to allow untested and unlabelled GM plants to be released into the environment and onto our plates" – Save Our Seeds ...

William Muir, professor of animal science, and Richard Howard, professor of biology, were funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Biotechnology Risk Assessment Program to develop a method to ...

Worldwide release of the Biosafety Assessment Tool: BAT. The BAT may be viewed at https://bat.genok.org. The Norwegian GenØk - Centre for Biosafety, Third World Network (TWN) and the New Zealand INBI ...

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Cotton is the only genetically modified (GM) crop that has been officially approved in India and has been cultivated (illegally then legally) in the country for more than 20 years. Although GM mustard ...

Their first point is that acute exposure testing is not sufficient. We never stated that risk assessment studies in the laboratory are restricted to short-term (acute) exposure testing. For a ...

Agricultural yields in sub-Saharan Africa are substantially lower than their potential productive capacities and the obstacles plaguing the region are significant Strategies aimed at combatting these ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Introducing genetically modified organisms into wild populations holds a greater theoretical risk of extinction of natural species than previously believed, according to two ...