Insights and Stories on GM Crops

Nov. 2, 2016 at 4:36 pm CDT

Berlin | Reuters — The German cabinet has approved a draft law banning cultivation of crops with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), government sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Germany had announced in September 2015 that it will ban cultivation of crops with GMOs under new European Union rules allowing member states […]

By Reuters

Jul. 2, 2015 at 9:41 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters — European food safety officials found there was no need to widen buffer zones around genetically modified (GM) crops even though research shows pollen from GM maize can travel kilometres further than previously thought. The buffer zones to protect vulnerable species, such as butterflies, have been part […]

By Alexander Saeedy

Jul. 2, 2015 at 9:34 pm CDT

Reuters — The White House on Thursday directed the three U.S. agencies that oversee biotech crop products to improve and modernize their regulatory “framework” to boost public confidence in a system that critics call a failure. The order, announced in a statement by President Barack Obama’s Office of Science and […]

By Carey Gillam

Jun. 22, 2015 at 6:08 pm CDT

Reuters — Dozens of consumer and food groups and businesses asked the U.S. government on Monday for tighter regulation of genetically engineered crops, calling the current system a “failure.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture has said it was considering changes to the way it regulates biotech crops and set a […]

By Carey Gillam

Apr. 24, 2015 at 11:45 am CDT

Brussels | Reuters –– The European Union cleared the import of 10 new types of genetically modified crops and two more kinds of cut flowers on Friday, its first authorizations in more than a year after a review of its blocked approval process. The European Commission said it had authorized […]

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