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Pew Commission Report: Industrial animal farming poses "unacceptable" risks for public health and the environment

04 May 2008

Important study condemns agro-industrial complex. Download here

Civil Society Statement on nano-technology: Guiding principles for regulation

14 Mar 2008

New study sparks call for nano-specific regulations. Read the study

Parkinson’s disease linked to pesticide exposure

26 Dec 2007

New study reinforces previous evidence...Read more

Farm Bill amendment calls for NAS to study safety and impacts of cloned meat and animals

18 Dec 2007

Amendment passes the senate....Read more

The Excommunication of a Heretic

26 Nov 2007

Impartiality of Nature Biotechnology questioned over 'interview' with Irina Ermakova ...Read more

Corn fakes

02 Nov 2007

Food preference paper "a flagrant fraud"...Read More

Effects of Bt pollen in aquatic ecosystems

02 Nov 2007

Study finds Bt maize pollen and detritus harms caddisflies...Read More

Goodbye Dolly... Hello Synthia

08 June 2007

Venter Institute claims patent for worlds' first synthetic microbe: Mycoplasma laboratorium
Read More

US beef causes infertility?

30 Mar 2007

Pregnant women who eat beef from cattle treated with growth-promoting hormones may be damaging the future fertility of their unborn sons... Read More

Study questions concordance

30 Mar 2007

Much of science, including healthcare research and important fields of risk assessment, depend, in part or in whole, on the presumption that animal models can usefully predict human responses to treatments... Read More

FOE report criticises EU biotech strategy

20 Mar 2007

A major stated goal of the European Union is to integrate and support ecological sustainability, job creation and competitiveness as stated in the form of the Lisbon objectives... Read More

Contaminated rice cultivar banned

20 Mar 2007

As part of an ongoing US effort to purge contaminating transgenic traits from rice varieties, the state plant board of Arkansas has banned the BASF rice variety Clearfield 131... Read More

Conflicted FDA chair faces jail

5 Dec 2006

Lester Crawford, ex-chairman of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) Obesity Working Group faces the likelihood of a jail sentence in the new year... Read More

Rice Contamination

Sept 16 2006

Transgene escape has again become a major biosafety and financial issue. On 18 August the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) revealed that non-transgenic long grain rice in the US was contaminated with Bayer transgene event LL601... Read More

Bt endangers Swallowtails

07 Aug 2006

Pollen from a Bt insect resistant maize is highly toxic to the European common swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon) according to a paper published last week in the journal Basic and Applied Ecology... Read More

 

 

Agriculture News from elsewhere...

Farmers reclaim lost land in Mexico's Oaxaca region

Patent land grab on 'Climate Ready' crop genes?

Union of Concerned Scientists report: The untold costs of CAFOs

IAASTD news: widespread support for radical changes to world farming

Currently debated Farm Bill spells disaster for bees, native prairies, organics

Sludge fertilizer program spurs concerns about unethical and incomplete research

Irradiation could be key to food safety USDA scientists say

Despite accidents FMD lab may move to the US mainland

EU alert Imports of Chinese Bt63 rice 'unsafe'

European Universities Association urges advance of open access

Monsanto Agrees to Buy De Ruiter Seeds deal subject to approval

Monsanto's legal tactics: A harvest of fear

Food additives 'could be as damaging as lead in petrol'

Scientific Institutions are 'flabby guardians of scientific integrity'

American songbirds being wiped out by banned pesticides

Baby rice warning: study finds high arsenic levels

Pesticide exposure and Parkinson's: a family-based case-control study

Italy's toxic waste scandal becomes a mozzarella scandal

Brazil wrestles with GM corn decision, seed patents too

Mexico allows experimental GM maize plantings Centers of origin excluded

Stem rust reaches Iran Wheat fungus strain Ug99 threatens price rises

Nanotechnology as food safety concern At least one regulator needs help

Solution Pollution Biofuels plants becoming a problem

Industry sponsorship and the integrity of nutrition research in Plos Medicine

Canadian labs don't have to report GM fish escapes Environment audit finds

US states move to label cloned meat After FDA refuses

The end of rBGH? The fight to end labelling

Harvard makes open access compulsory Faculty agree to establish repository

Obesity Society President-elect resigns over Restaurant Association payments

Venters' modest proposal to make octane from CO2 'in 18 months'

Soybean farmers suspend $1.5 million in grants after University publishes biofuels study in Science

Did Ecoterrorists save planet from climate chaos? Significane of Ice-minus bacterium reevaluated

New Report: Biomass pellets are eight times more efficient than corn ethanol and twice as efficient as soybean biodiesel

Earthworms concentrate household products in soils treated with biosolid waste

On GMO approvals China pauses for thought

Political interference in science UCS coordinates call for congress and next president to act

Climate change Biofuels hinder rather than help new papers show

First evidence of resistance to Bt Helicoverpa zea on cotton

France requests EU for GMO ban on MON810

Contaminants of biosolid fertilisers Household toxins, pharmaceuticals, triclosan and more

Homogeneous horror
Livestock farming concentration

EU biofuels report leaked Report predicts biofuel failure costing 33-65 billion euros

Alternative energy collaborations report University independence 'sold for a low price'

ASA warns EU of "massive retaliation" over GM approvals

Pesticides in US children A daily dose of organo-phosphates

Cloned animals The death of diversity

The politics of organic seed certification The grassroots versus the seed industry

Ecological Society of America Statement on Biofuels

Part human, part animal embryos to be created UK body gives research approval subject to restrictions

Women faculty 'less satisfied' than colleagues Cornell study reports

Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors Says study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Kraft to offer Hormone-free cheese Blow to rBGH technology

Maize in Peru Contaminated by Transgenes (report in an unpublished paper)

USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market But clones already being eaten

EFSA draft opinion on cloned animals
Impacts on animal health, welfare and food safety

Senate mandates NIH on open access
Bush signs bill requiring OA for NIH-funded papers after 12 months

Lymphotoxin-Beta in transgenic maize Extremely low doses provoke immune responses in mice

Atrazine underestimated
CDC's standard assay has been systematically underestimating exposure

Doubts raised over US beef safety
20 recalls this year for contamination

Court documents allege chocolate price-fixing Nestle, Hershey, Cadbury and Mars investigated

Australian states lift GM moratorium Canola ban lifted in two states

APHIS fines Scotts over creeping bentgrass trial

EU GM maize ban being proposed
by EU environment officials

Weed it and reap
Michael Pollan on the farm bill

EU challenges Swedish transparency legislation
Sweden's openness inconsistent with CBI provisions

Organically-grown food more nutritious
European project provides further evidence

France suspends Bt maize
Until further studies are complete

New EU pesticide legislation
would 'ban 90 per cent of insecticides'

Long-Hidden Dangers?
Early Exposure to DDT May Raise Risk of Breast Cancer

Maternal exposure to pesticides linked to autism
Endosulfan and Dicofol implicated

Brazil's landless movement breaks with Lula
Call him a tragedy for the country

USDA approves GM pharma rice
Ventria to grow treament for diarrhea in Kansas: rice farmers displeased- "We just want them to go away."

FDA nears approval of cattle antibiotic
Despite resistance threat warnings from American Medical Association and others

Planned merger angers black farmers
Monsanto seeks to acquire Delta and Pine Land

Dutch to increase GM import checks
'GM-free' maize contained unapproved events

Judge makes ban on GM alfalfa permanent
USDA must consider effects on conventional and organic farmers.

Free Trade vs Small Farmers
Today, perhaps the greatest threat to small farmers is free trade. And the farmers are fighting back... by Walden Bello

European Patent Office Revokes Monsanto Soy Patent
...........13 years late