GMO

New Dicamba Drift Estimate: 1.1 Million Acres Damaged Already in 2018

New Dicamba Drift Estimate: 1.1 Million Acres Damaged Already in 2018

A University of Missouri report released Thursday estimates that drift damage from the pesticide dicamba has occurred across 1.1 million acres of agricultural crops, trees and other plants so far this year. This comes less than a year after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and many states introduced additional restrictions meant to prevent off-target […]

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    Beekeepers File Legal Complaint Against Bayer Over Glyphosate in Honey

    Beekeepers File Legal Complaint Against Bayer Over Glyphosate in Honey

    Bayer, which recently wrapped up its takeover of Monsanto, now owns glyphosate and the liabilities surrounding it. Last Thursday, the same day the $63 billion acquisition closed, a beekeeping cooperative in northern France filed a legal complaint against the German chemical giant after the controversial weedkiller was detected in honey produced by one of its […]

    Bayer to Drop Monsanto Name After $63 Billion Takeover

    Bayer to Drop Monsanto Name After $63 Billion Takeover

    Bayer plans to complete its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto on Thursday after receiving all required approvals from regulatory authorities. The German pharmaceutical company will also retire the St. Louis-based corporation’s 117-year-old name. “Bayer will remain the company name. Monsanto will no longer be a company name. The acquired products will retain their brand names […]

    NTP Scientist: Glyphosate Formulations ‘Much More Toxic’ Than Chemical Itself

    NTP Scientist: Glyphosate Formulations ‘Much More Toxic’ Than Chemical Itself

    Amid conflicting scientific studies and growing public concern over the impacts of the world’s most widely used herbicide, the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) has launched research to examine the health risks of glyphosate and glyphosate-formulations. “Due to the multiple interpretations of evidence on the potential health risks of glyphosate exposure, major public concern about […]

    Proposed GMO Food Labeling Could Leave 100 Million Americans in the Dark

    Proposed GMO Food Labeling Could Leave 100 Million Americans in the Dark

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Thursday released the long-awaited proposed regulations for the mandatory disclosure of foods produced using genetic engineering (GE or GMO), which it calls “bioengineered foods.” The regulations come out of a 2016 law signed by President Obama prohibiting existing state GE labeling laws, such as Vermont’s, that required on-package […]

    Glyphosate Detected in Granola and Crackers, FDA Emails Show

    Glyphosate Detected in Granola and Crackers, FDA Emails Show

    Scientists with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) have found traces of a ubiquitous and controversial weedkiller in granola, crackers and other everyday foods, according to internal documents obtained by The Guardian through a freedom of information request. The FDA has tested food samples for glyphosate for “two years, but has not yet […]