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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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Tag Archives: EPA
U.S. Grain Industry Believes USDA APHIS’s “New Proposed Rule [for regulating GMOs] Is Fundamentally Flawed”
I’ve got to give credit to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for persistence. USDA APHIS has proposed new rules for regulating genetically engineered (GE) crop plants (AKA genetically modified organisms: GMOs) … Continue reading
UC Professors Weigh in on Glyphosate (AKA Roundup) and Carcinogenicity
Glyphosate, the “most widely used herbicide in the world,” is in the news a lot lately, largely because the first of thousands of lawsuits, filed by folks who used Monsanto’s Roundup (or other glyphosate-based herbicide products) for decades–who assumed it was … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged conflicts of interest, EPA, Genetic Engineering, glyphosate, Monsanto, Roundup, Science, WHO, World Health Organization
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Monsanto, Henry Miller, and the FDA
I have been reading with interest various articles reporting on the trove of internal documents obtained from Monsanto during the discovery phase of a federal multidistrict litigation against that company that is currently pending in the United States. (The documents, … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged EPA, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Forbes, Genetic Engineering, glyphosate, GMOs, Henry Miller, Monsanto, New York Times, Regulation of GMOs, Roundup, Science, The Nation
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US Food Standard: Reasonable Certainty of No Harm
There seems to be some confusion among people I have interacted with recently as to whether the standard for food safety in the United States is one of “relative safety,” i.e. one that permits foods, food additives or foods with … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged EPA, FDA, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMO regulation, GMOs
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Preparing for Regulating Future Products of Biotechnology by Learning from the Past
In response to a memorandum issued by the Executive Office of the President last July, representatives of the agencies that regulate the products of biotechnology in the United States–FDA, EPA and USDA–participated in a meeting at UC Davis today titled … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged Bt176, EPA, FDA, GE labeling, genetically engineered food, NK603 corn, StarLinkTM corn, USDA
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GMOs: All Facts, No Fiction
I participated in two panel discussions on genetic engineering called “GMOs: All Facts, No Fiction” that were sponsored by the University of California’s Global Food Initiative in 2015. One was held at UC Davis on November 3rd and the other … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged EPA, FDA, GE Foods, GE labeling, GMOs, Regulation of GMOs, USDA
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Genetic Engineering is Very Different Than Traditional Breeding
The United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have established a committee to study the “economic, agronomic, health, safety, or other impacts of genetically engineered (GE) crops and food.” The committee’s results may be used to reassess the … Continue reading
California EPA to List Glyphosate as Known to the State to Cause Cancer
In case you haven’t already heard… The California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has posted notice of its intent to list glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup® and other related herbicides, as “known to the … Continue reading
GMOs and Democracy
The start of a comment made in response to my last post—“Maybe it is undemocratic but in this case…”—still bothers me. It also worries me when I hear plant molecular biologists say: “I would normally be in favor of labeling, … Continue reading
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 of … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged animal feeding studies, Bt corn, Bt pollen, CDC, Coordinated Framework, EPA, FDA
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