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- The Absurdity of Claiming that “All GMOs are Safe” In an op-ed piece in The New York Times, Mark Lynas recently wrote that “There is an equivalent level of scientific consensus on both issues…that climate change is real and genetically modified foods are safe.” But comparing the issues …
- Time To Talk “Conflicts of Interest” In Relation to GMOs Scientific conflicts of interest have been in the news a lot lately. For example, a federal judge recently ruled that various members of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee had conflicts of interest and…
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Why test GE Bananas on U.S. citizens?
According to a recent NPR article, “Somewhere in Iowa, volunteers are earning $900 apiece by providing blood samples after eating” bananas that have been genetically engineered (GE) to produce levels of pro-vitamin A some 5-6 times higher than levels in … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged animal feeding studies, EPA, FDA, GE bananas, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMO regulation, USDA
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EPA Poised to Repeat Superweed Mistake
Twenty years ago scientists debated whether genetically engineering crops to be resistant to herbicides would lead to “superweeds” tolerant of those herbicides. That debate is no longer hypothetical. We now know, based on the rapid development of glyphosate-resistant superweeds, that … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged Dow Chemical, EPA, GE corn, herbicide-resistance, StarLinkTM corn, superweeds
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Twenty Years Ago Today Biotech Food was Commercially Launched
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first sales of the world’s first genetically engineered (GE), commercially available, whole food: the Flavr Savr™ tomato. High-end Flavr Savrs, dubbed “MacGregor’s®” tomatoes, available that day at the State Market IGA in Davis, … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged Calgene, Flavr Savr tomato, GE labeling, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMO labels
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Is FDA “Regulation” of GE Foods Legal?
Today marks twenty years–to the day–since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first pronounced a “whole food produced by biotechnology,” Calgene’s Flavr Savr™ tomato, “as safe as tomatoes bred by conventional means.” FDA’s announcement “was accompanied by a new … Continue reading
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Tagged FDA, Flavr SavrTM tomato, Food Additive laws, GE Foods, GMO, Regulation of GMOs
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Senate Bill 1381: Establishing Choice With Regard To GE Foods
An op-ed piece against SB1381, a bill in the California legislature that would require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods, was published in The Davis Enterprise, April 20, 2014. Here’s my response to that piece, published in the same newspaper: … Continue reading
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Rebuttal to Statements Against SB 1381, The California GE Labeling Bill
Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) has introduced a bill, SB 1381, which would require genetically engineered (GE) foods in California’s retail grocery stores to be labeled starting in 2016. I’m in favor of this bill because, as stated in its … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged Bt corn, FDA, GE labeling, GMO regulation, New York Times, SB 1381, StarLinkTM corn, unintended changes in GE crops
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A Dearth of Life-Long Animal Studies of GE Foods
I’ve been corresponding with individual email-writers and I’ll occasionally post versions of my responses here because they tend to touch upon multiple issues related to genetically engineered (GE) crops in one piece (whereas I usually focus on fewer issues in … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged Bt10, Calgene, CDC, Coordinated Framework, EPA, FDA, Food Additive Petition, Food and Chemical Toxicology, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, genetically engineered sweet corn, Monsanto, Monsanto's sweet corn, NK603 corn, Seralini, StarLinkTM corn, Substantial Equivalence, Syngenta, The Lancet, unintended changes in GE crops, USDA, USDA's Plant Pest List
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More Scientific Evidence Is Needed For GE Crop Debate
In addition to the apparent lack of scientific follow-up on the long-term rat-feeding study of Monsanto’s NK603 genetically engineered (GE) corn carried out by Séralini et al., I found various comments among the many letters to the editor of the … Continue reading
Science-Based Regulation of GE Crops Requires More Long-Term Rat Feeding Studies with NK603 Corn
Although May 2014 will mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. FDA’s approval for and Calgene’s market launch of the world’s first commercially available genetically engineered (GE) whole food, the Flavr SavrTM tomato, it’s amazing how relevant that GE tomato … Continue reading
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Tagged Bt corn, Bt pollen, Calgene, EPA, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Monarch butterfly larvae, Monsanto, NK603 corn, rat feeding studies, Seralini, StarLink corn, unintended effects, USDA
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How Slate.com botched a story about genetically modified food
A few days ago, Jon Entine posted a story on Slate.com reporting that Caitlin Shetterly’s feature in Elle magazine on genetically engineered (GE) corn (AKA genetically modified, or GM, corn) “just doesn’t withstand the critical scrutiny of science.” But Entine’s … Continue reading
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