Asian Communities Press for Biosafety and Corporate Accountability

While new technologies are being rapidly deployed in food and farms all over Asia, the law and policy regimes to ensure that they do not endanger life and biodiversity are still far from fully in place. […]

Relief as Parties to the Biosafety Protocol adopt key decisions

TWN report on the outcomes of the Sixth Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety […]

Safety of Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Maize Thrown into Doubt

New results about the health impacts of the widely used Roundup herbicide and the Roundup tolerant genetically engineered maize NK603 have been presented at an international scientific conference on biosafety in Hyderabad, India. […]

Socio-Economic Considerations under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety – Insights for Effective Implementation

This briefing provides insights for effective implementation of the Cartagena Protocol provision on socio-economic considerations. […]

The AHTEG Guidance on Risk Assessment of LMOs

This briefing on the AHTEG Guidance of Risk Assessment of LMOs explains the strengths of the Guidance, including that for the monitoring of LMOs released into the environment. […]

Some Key Issues for COP-MOP6

An overview of some of the key issues on the agenda for COP-MOP6 and what steps need to be taken to ensure effective implementation of the Cartagena Protocol. […]

Report of COP-MOP5: Biosafety Protocol Steps Forward

TWN report on the outcomes of COP-MOP5, which met in Nagoya, Japan from 11-15 October 2010. […]

Long Term Toxicity of a Roundup Herbicide and a Roundup-Tolerant GM Maize

Worrying new results about the health impacts of the widely-used Roundup herbicide and the Roundup tolerant GM maize NK603 (cultivated with or without Roundup) have just been published. […]

Potential Health Risks of GM Wheat

Expert scientists have warned that a wheat genetically modified using new dsRNA-mediated silencing may pose health risks. […]

Potential Health Risks of GM Wheat

Expert scientists have warned that a wheat genetically modified using new dsRNA-mediated silencing may pose health risks. […]