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The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has placed an immediate suspension on the importation of herbicides that contain the active ingredient glyphosate, following the landmark Roundup cancer trial verdict in San Francisco two weeks ago. Source: http://jamaica-gleaner.com Acting on the advice...

A study of more than 1 million pregnancies in Finland reports that elevated levels of a metabolite of the banned insecticide DDT in the blood of pregnant...

Professor Channa Sudath Jayasumana from Rajarata University announced earlier this week that a group of farmer organizations, researchers, patients and...

The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear a challenge to a key provision of the state’s landmark chemical consumer-disclosure law, Proposition...

Following the guilty verdict handed out on Friday to Monsanto in the landmark legal case in San Francisco, which judged that the glyphosate-based weedkiller...

Bayer AG, the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, is in panic after a huge share sell off on Monday morning, following the decision...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must finalize its proposed ban on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children,...

A Brazilian judge has suspended the use of products containing the agrochemical glyphosate, a widely employed herbicide for soy and other crops in the...

The Trump administration has stopped a partial phase out of the use of neonicotinoid pesticides and genetically modified crops on national wildlife refuges...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today published its ruling on the legal status of food and feed crops derived from certain new genetic modification...