How Food Became A Casualty of Biotechnology’s Promise

This policy brief exposes how food is merely the conduit through which the pharmaceutical conglomerates hope to develop and monopolize the basic technologies that promise high profits. […]

Study on MON863 Maize Reinforces Call for a Ban

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Regulatory systems for GE crops a failure: the case of MON863.
Greenpeace, March 2007

New peer-reviewed evaluation (i) of Monsanto’s data shows MON863 should not have been approved in EU or elsewhere

MON8 […]

Group says GM Rice to Treat Diarrhea is a Not Solution

UCS Uncovers Lax USDA Oversight of Pharma Crops
New Evidence Points to Need for Ban on Pharma Food Crops
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/genetic_engineering/usda-ventria-oversight.html

The Union of Concerned Scientis […]

Not Ready for Prime Time: FDA’s Flawed Assessment

The Center for Food Safety criticises the Food and Drug Administration’s risk assessment on animal clones, saying that the assessment is based on unsubstantiated assumptions, misreported findings, and flawed analyses of scientific research. […]

Report Says Assessment of Safety of Food from Animal Clones Flawed

Not Ready for Prime Time
FDA’s Flawed Approach to Assessing the Safety of Food from Animal Clones

Summary

Last December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had completed its “risk assessment” (i) on f […]

Evaluation of MON863 raw data reveals toxicity to rats

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Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
© Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007
10.1007/s00244-006-0149-5
New Analysis of a Rat Feeding Study with a Genetically Modified Maize Reveals Signs […]

Regulatory Systems for GE Crops a Failure: the Case of MON863

The peer-reviewed evaluation of Monsanto’s data shows that MON863 should not have been approved in the EU or elsewhere […]

Analysis of a Rat Feeding Study with MON863 Reveals Signs of Hepatorenal Toxicity

An independent analysis by CRIIGEN of MON863 which shows that rats fed with the GM maize exhibit toxicity in the liver and kidney. […]

US Judge Halts Sale, Planting of GM Alfalfa

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Judge halts sale of biotech alfalfa seeds
Los Angeles Times, USA, 13.03.2007
Marc Lifsher
(http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-seeds13mar13,1,2275363.story?coll=la-headlines-technology

A fede […]

Does Africa Need a Genetically Modified Solution to Diarrhea

Friends of the Earth Africa believes that the continent does not need GM solutions to diarrhea as there are proven and inexpensive solutions to the problem. […]