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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must finalize its proposed ban on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children, from use on produce sold in the U.S. within 60 days, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The judges found the agency broke the law by continuing...

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...

On Wednesday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration for failing to abide by the mandatory deadlines Congress...

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...

Iran’s Food and Drug Administration has obliged food manufacturers and importers to label food products that contain ingredients which are derived from...

Living Maxwell revealed on Monday that BASF is a member of the U.S. Organic Trade Association, causing outrage across the organic world. The full Living...

Few people engaged today in the important debates over regulation of agricultural biotechnology know or remember much about the critical debates that...

A variety of bentgrass, genetically engineered by Scotts Miracle-Gro and Monsanto to tolerate the glyphosate herbicide Roundup, escaped from an experimental...

Pesticides are widely used chemicals that are impossible for most of us to avoid. Many people are aware that they impact weeds, insects, and fungi –...