News and comment on genetically modified foods and their associated pesticides 
- 1. GM firms
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- ... fifth largest agrochemical company. That is why around 80% of GM seeds have been engineered to be resistant to weed killers (herbicides). Monsanto’s main GM product is crops resistant to glyphosate (the ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 2. Glyphosate ...
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- Created on 17 May 2017
- 3. Study is first to show glyphosate and Roundup disrupt human gut bacteria ...
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- Findings suggest probiotics could help reverse damage to people's gut bacteria caused by Roundup exposure. Report by Claire Robinson Both glyphosate and Roundup disturbed the gut microbiome in ...
- Created on 08 September 2022
- 4. New study shows glyphosate crosses blood-brain barrier ...
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- ... have also been implicated as possible players in the development or advancement of neurodegenerative disease. Among these is glyphosate herbicide, which is used in massive amounts on GMO glyphosate-toleran ...
- Created on 29 July 2022
- 5. Weed management alternatives to glyphosate flourish ...
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- One such alternative has been adopted by Harvard University Landscape Services. By Jonathan Matthews and Claire Robinson As concerns grow about the health and environmental impacts of glyphosate ...
- Created on 13 July 2022
- 6. Journalist commissioned by agency to ghostwrite articles defending glyphosate and attacking IARC ...
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- ... after it classified glyphosate as a probable carcinogen. The agency, iStrat, acted as a middleman for unknown clients whose anonymity was carefully concealed. The 595 articles that the journalist eventually ...
- Created on 08 July 2022
- 7. "Sweeping regulatory reform" needed for glyphosate ...
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- New review highlights scientific failures as well as conflicts of interest in regulatory agencies What's wrong with the way glyphosate is regulated? Plenty, as shown in a new review by Dr Eva Novotny ...
- Created on 24 June 2022
- 8. "Major victory": Court orders EPA review of glyphosate's cancer and endangered species risks ...
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- By Jessica Corbett "While it comes too late for many farmworkers and landscapers who suffer after glyphosate exposure, we are grateful for the court's ruling," said a representative for one plainti ...
- Created on 19 June 2022
- 9. Leading molecular geneticist warns about the impact of GM (including gene editing) and glyphosate ...
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- ... just the health risks associated with GM foods but also those of the pesticide most closely associated with them: glyphosate-based herbicides. In fact, as Michael Antoniou himself notes, his research lab ...
- Created on 14 June 2022
- 10. Scientific evidence of glyphosate link to cancer dismissed in ongoing EU assessment, new report reveals ...
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- HEAL condemns ECHA's assessment as a step backwards in Europe’s fight against cancer A HEAL report published yesterday shows that scientific evidence proving that glyphosate is carcinogenic has so fa ...
- Created on 09 June 2022
- 11. EU Chemicals Agency fails to classify glyphosate as a human carcinogen ...
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- ... that the widely used pesticide active substance glyphosate (the main ingredient of Roundup herbicide) does not meet the criteria to be labeled as a carcinogenic or genotoxic agent.[1] The Health and ...
- Created on 30 May 2022
- 12. Glyphosate-tolerant crops increase tillage intensity, greenhouse gas emissions in US corn and soybeans – study ...
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- Findings demolish claims that GM glyphosate-sprayed crops have helped mitigate climate change by reducing need for ploughing Remember how glyphosate and glyphosate-tolerant crops were supposed to ...
- Created on 25 May 2022
- 13. Latest research on glyphosate weedkillers justifies Mexico’s phaseout ...
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- ... which usefully summarises some of the latest research on glyphosate. The article is by Silvia Ribeiro, the Latin America director for ETC group. She is based in Mexico, where the government of President ...
- Created on 27 April 2022
- 14. Independent expert bodies contest key assertions of favourable EU glyphosate assessment ...
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- ... doused with pesticides, regulatory agencies continue to allow the marketing of new “plant protection” products — and the regulation of glyphosate highlights this failure, according to an article in Le ...
- Created on 21 February 2022
- 15. Glyphosate and Roundup: All roads lead to cancer ...
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- New findings add to other observations linking glyphosate and Roundup to cancer. Report: Claire Robinson Glyphosate and Roundup lead to changes in gene regulatory microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) linked ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 16. Colombian court thwarts glyphosate spraying of coca crops ...
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- Spraying was stopped in 2015 after the World Health Organization classified glyphosate as a probable carcinogen EXCERPT: The court, in an order obtained Wednesday, ordered authorities to consult residents ...
- Created on 24 January 2022
- 17. Glyphosate damages blood-testis barrier and causes poor quality sperm ...
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- US acceptable daily intake level found unsafe. Report: Claire Robinson Glyphosate causes blood-testis barrier damage and low quality sperm via a destructive process called oxidative stress, shows ...
- Created on 03 January 2022
- 18. Researchers slam EU safety review of glyphosate ...
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- According to an independent review by cancer researchers, the EU preliminary decision that glyphosate is safe is based on faulty studies As the story below reports, researchers connected to Global2000, ...
- Created on 01 December 2021
- 19. Glyphosate: EU assessment report excludes most of the scientific literature from its analysis ...
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- 92% of toxicity studies judged irrelevant or unreliable by preliminary European report. By Claire Robinson The preliminary EU report on glyphosate prepared by the Dutch, Hungarian, French and Swedish ...
- Created on 30 November 2021
- 20. Only two out of 11 industry glyphosate studies given to EU regulators deemed reliable ...
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- ... deemed ‘reliable’ Carey Gillam The Guardian, 26 Nov 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/26/glyphosate-eu-regulators-studies-roundup-weedkiller?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Top+news%3A&utm_campaign=ATF+Daily ...
- Created on 29 November 2021