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In a precedential victory for food and environmental safety, a federal district court ruled this week that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) must...

After years of being detected at alarming levels, the pesticide glyphosate is being found at lower levels, on average, in cereal and other oat-based products...

On the fiftieth anniversary of the controversial weedkiller’s release, a Friends of the Earth analysis  – New Roundup, New Risks – finds that...

After decades of inaction, last Friday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed plan to implement its Endocrine-Disruptor Screening...

A diet containing GM soybean oil damaged the liver and kidney of rats in a new 90-day feeding study conducted by Iranian scientists. The study provides...

In 2017, two United Nations experts called for a treaty to strictly regulate dangerous pesticides, which they said were a “global human rights concern”,...

Pesticides have long been established as potentially health damaging, with some of them linked to cancer. In a populational US-wide study that considered...

In what is being called a significant victory for Mexico, Monsanto has withdrawn its legal challenge against the 2020 presidential decree aimed at banning...

A recently published study in Nature Genetics shows that the use of CRISPR/Cas ‘gene scissors’ causes unintended genetic changes that are different...