Agricultural Laws & Regulations
Bayer, BASF, Corteva urge federal court to review dicamba weedkiller ban, calling it ‘unconstitutional’
Bayer, BASF and Corteva Agriscience continue the fight to preserve postemergent dicamba use. The companies are contesting the results of ...
GMO mosquitoes set for Florida release during first Dengue fever outbreak in 10 years
The Florida Keys is experiencing its first outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease Dengue fever in 10 years.The Florida Department of ...
Podcast: Homeopathic ‘drug’ passes peer review; EU: GMO crops bad, GMO medicine good; Wine industry wants CRISPR
Research validating a homeopathic 'drug' for erectile function was published in a peer-reviewed science journal. Europe's Green Party opposes genetic ...
Bayer loses first glyphosate-cancer appeal, but court cuts damages by 74 percent to $20.5 million
Bayer AG failed to persuade a California appeals court to overturn a verdict favoring a school groundskeeper who claimed its ...
After planting illegal GMO herbicide-tolerant cotton, Indian farmers poised to grow biotech eggplant, soybean and corn
The member farmers belonging to the Shetkari Sanghatana in Maharashtra, who have already broken the law by planting genetically modified ...
Viewpoint: Mexico’s activist government pushes glyphosate ban that threatens food security and farmer welfare
Biotech giant Bayer is currently in the fight of its life against more than 100,000 lawsuits alleging its flagship weedkiller ...
Europe’s young farmers want to use latest sustainability tools—including gene editing
Young farmers’ organization, the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA), took a generally positive but cautious view on the Commission’s ...
Evidence may not matter: Roundup cancer settlements could trigger international pesticide suits regardless of health impacts
Since litigation began a couple years ago, Roundup, a particular brand of glyphosate based pesticide, is now firmly established as ...
European Union suspends some GMO regulations to fast-track COVID-19 vaccine
The EU’s stance on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been criticized by the Consumer Choice Center, which has labelled it ...
10 things everyone should know about GMOs in Africa
1. Biotechnology, genetic modification, genetic engineering and GMOs are terms for essentially the same process: breeding crops and livestock to ...
Viewpoint: Are synthetic food additives dangerous? Here’s the science anti-chemical activists ignore
Always take chemical advice from EWG with a grain of (inorganic) salt ...
Indian farmers’ union says illegal GMO herbicide-tolerant cotton cultivation continues, despite arrests
Under the new regulated cropping system, farmers in Telangana have grown cotton on 60 lakh acres, setting a new record ...
Viewpoint: Court-ordered dicamba weedkiller ban could fuel new legal strategy to restrict Bayer’s Roundup
On June 3, 2020, a panel of three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San ...
Colombia aims to restart aerial glyphosate spraying of coca crops under pressure from US
Alhough coca crop size fell 9% in 2019 to the lowest level in six years, the capacity to produce cocaine ...
Viewpoint: How biotech crops, lab-grown meat and other food innovations could jump start post-COVID economic recovery
COVID-19 threatens to slow or halt agricultural innovation in the US by exacerbating the decline in public R&D and threatening ...
Support for crop gene editing in UK, Europe grows as legislators aim to expand sustainable farming
Asked about the potential for biotech and gene editing in the Farm to Fork strategy (F2F), the EU’s new flagship ...
Uganda proposes ‘stop-gap’ rules to block GMO crops that could be brought illegally across Kenyan border
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), plans to draft regulations that will guide the environmental release of Genetically Modified Organisms ...
India floats glyphosate weedkiller restrictions to curb demand for illegal herbicide-tolerant cotton
The agriculture ministry, in a draft notification, has restricted the use of glyphosate only through Pest Control Operators (PCOs). “No ...
USDA proposes measures to crack down on fraud in organic farming
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) proposes amending the USDA organic regulations to strengthen oversight ...
Despite Europe’s strict GMO rules, biotechnology can still help farmers feed the continent
The EU has recently laid out a series of targets to dramatically reduce the amounts of chemicals used in European ...
Farming a ‘climate villain’? IPCC may have inflated greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that agriculture is one of the main sources of greenhouse gases, ...
Viewpoint: All milk is ‘non-GMO,’ and 4 other facts you should know before you go grocery shopping
Just as you don’t want food with empty calories, avoid food with empty label claims such as “____-free”, “natural”, “farm-raised” ...
Viewpoint: Plant-based meats promote veganism in ways animal rights activists never could
Author and animal-rights activist Jonathan Safran Foer [author of the book Eating Animals] recently argued in a New York Times ...
Deal to limit future glyphosate suits against Bayer collapsing, but $10.9 billion settlement likely to hold
The plan concocted by Monsanto owner Bayer AG and a small group of lawyers was filed [in June] in U.S ...
European Food Safety Authority rebuffs activist criticism of its safety assessment of insect and herbicide resistant GMO crops
The Risk “Assessment of genetically engineered organisms in the EU and Switzerland” (RAGES) project (2016‐2019) evaluated the risk assessment of ...
Green Party defends Europe’s simultaneous ban on gene-edited crops and use of biotech in medicine
[Editor's note: In June a faction of Germany's Green Party argued it was time the EU revised its strict regulation ...
Will the Bayer glyphosate settlement fall apart? Judge says he may reject $10.9 billion Monsanto Roundup agreement, saying future plaintiffs might be hurt
[In June] Bayer agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to settle close to 100,000 U.S. lawsuits [alleging its ...
How the COVID pandemic may have helped Bayer settle crippling glyphosate-cancer litigation
[Editor's note: Biotech giant Bayer recently settled roughly 95,000 lawsuits alleging it Roundup herbicide causes cancer. The $10.9 billion settlement ...
