2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Studies are not long enough and don’t test mixtures

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

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