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PAN: France Bans Two Forms of Glyphosate The Administrative Court of Montpellier banned two glyphosate products marketed by Syngenta. The company did not submit the mandatory risk assessment on the impacts on bees, other insects, soil and water life. For this reason, re-authorisation should not have been granted by the authorities. This result is a …
“Today’s judgement is a big step towards transparency and accountability in EU decision-making. People have the right to know the foreseeable health and environmental impacts of EU decisions on products like pesticides, and the Court has vindicated this right. It is shocking that EFSA needed to be reminded in court that its mission is to …
Europe Tightens Restrictions on CRISPR Gene-Edited Crops Proponents of the ruling say CRISPR-Cas9 is largely untested Latest News By Julie Fidler Posted On July 28, 2018 Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/europe-tightens-restrictions-crispr-gene-edited-crops-1649/#ixzz5YAdV2v3e Follow us: @naturalsociety on Twitter | NaturalSociety on Facebook Europe’s highest court ruled July 25 that crops edited with CRISPR technology should face the same …
EU’s top court confirms safety checks needed for new GM New GM techniques such as genome editing must be fully tested The EU’s top court ruled today that a controversial new generation of food genetic engineering techniques should be subject to EU safety checks and consumer labelling.[1] In a landmark ruling, the European Court of …
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Grow your own? “ “This merger will create the world’s biggest and most powerful agribusiness corporation, which will try to force its genetically modified seeds and toxic pesticides into our food and countryside,” Adrian Bebb, food and farming campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, said in a statement.” “Consolidation of Bayer and Monsanto—not to …
We would loose one third of our crops without these hard working pollinators. Rights of Nature now! “Any ban on these damaging pesticides must go hand in hand with a fundamental reform of agriculture policy to help farmers work in harmony with nature —not against it. A major shift to agroecology is needed to allow …