Insights and Stories on Gmo

White House directs U.S. GMO regulators to update oversight

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 […]

Groups urge tighter controls as U.S. considers GM crop regulation

Jun. 22, 2015 at 6:08 pm CDT

By Carey Gillam

EU approves first new genetically modified crops since 2013

Apr. 24, 2015 at 11:45 am CDT

By philip-blenkinsop

Green group targets Super Bowl’s official hummus

Jan. 23, 2015 at 4:44 pm CST

By Staff

Scientists create ‘genetic firewall’ for new forms of life

Jan. 21, 2015 at 3:34 pm CST

By Sharon Begley

Germany to press EU for national right to ban GMOs before 2015 harvest

Nov. 14, 2014 at 10:09 am CST

Berlin | Reuters — Germany is pressing the European Commission to allow individual EU countries to ban cultivation of crops with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) before the 2015 harvest. German farm minister minister Christian Schmidt said “social-economic reasons” should be taken into account to allow a European Union country to […]

By Reuters

EU moves step closer to law on national GMO crop bans

Nov. 12, 2014 at 6:54 pm CST

Brussels | Reuters — EU politicians on Tuesday backed a plan to allow nations to ban genetically modified crops on their soil even if they are given approval to be grown in the European Union, raising the chance their use will remain limited on the continent. Widely grown in the […]

GMO battles over ‘settled’ science spur new study of crops

Nov. 11, 2014 at 7:24 pm CST

Reuters — Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, and its brethren of global biotech crop developers are spreading the word that as far as the safety of their genetically modified grain goes, the science is solidly on their side. The message of “settled” science has become the rallying cry for […]

By Carey Gillam

USDA clears GMO potato with lower cancer risk

Nov. 7, 2014 at 7:18 pm CST

CORRECTED, Nov. 10, 2014 — Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday approved the first genetically modified potato for commercial planting in the United States in more than a decade, a move likely to draw the ire of groups opposed to artificial manipulation of foods. The so-called […]

By Ros Krasny

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