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EU delays vote on glyphosate license amid cancer row

By Alissa De Carbonnel, GFM Network News May 19, 2016

Brussels | Reuters — The European Union on Thursday delayed a vote on renewing sales approval for the herbicide glyphosate, used in Monsanto’s Roundup, amid a transatlantic row over whether it may cause cancer. Experts from the EU’s 28 nations had been due to vote on a proposal to extend by nine years licensing of

Biologists isolate novel genes from cauliflower to improve crop nutritional value. A study committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine looking at gene-altered crops notes a genetically engineered characteristic that alters the nutritional content of a crop is “unlikely to have the same environmental or economic effects as a characteristic for herbicide resistance.” (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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U.S. study finds no risks to people, planet in GMOs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 18, 2016

It’s time for the task of regulating new crop varieties to focus on plants’ characteristics rather than on how the plants were developed, a team of U.S. scientists recommends in a new report. A study committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on Tuesday released an “extensive” study of genetically engineered crops, finding

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U.N. experts find glyphosate unlikely to cause cancer

By GFM Network News, Kate Kelland May 16, 2016

London | Reuters — The herbicide glyphosate, sold by Monsanto in its Roundup product and widely used in agriculture and by gardeners, is unlikely to cause cancer in people, according to a new safety review by United Nations health, agriculture and food experts. In a statement likely to intensify a row over its potential health

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Germany looks set to abstain in EU glyphosate vote

By GFM Network News, Reuters May 12, 2016

Reuters — Germany looks set to abstain in a European Union vote next week on the continued use of glyphosate in weed killers because ministries run by different parties remain at odds over the chemical which some experts say could be carcinogenic. Glyphosate is used in many herbicides including Monsanto’s Roundup, despite a dispute between

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U.S. lawmakers put pressure on EPA over glyphosate review

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter May 12, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers have asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to explain why it published — and then withdrew — documents related to its review of glyphosate, the chemical in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The documents, which included a report that said glyphosate is not likely

Jesus Madrazo, Monsanto’s vice-president of global corporate engagement, says “digital” agriculture could catch on with farmers just as quickly as GM crops did.

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Digital agriculture the next big thing, says Monsanto official

Farmers adopted GM crops faster than the company expected  and the same could occur with precision farming

By Allan Dawson May 3, 2016

If you want some idea of how quickly digital agriculture could grow, take a look at what happened with GM crops. Monsanto never expected genetically modified crops to catch on as quickly as they did and one company insider says the same explosive growth could happen with data-driven farming. Instead of a measured and evolutionary

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U.S. EPA pulls back report saying glyphosate not likely carcinogenic

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter May 3, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday pulled a report offline that concluded glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, saying the document was inadvertently published and the agency had not finished its review of the chemical, a key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides. The 86-page report, seen by

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Scientists take sides: Who’s right about glyphosate?

By GFM Network News, Kate Kelland April 18, 2016

London | Reuters — The latest dispute to blow up around the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concerns glyphosate, an ingredient in one of the world’s most widely-used herbicides, Roundup, made by Monsanto. In March 2015, an IARC monograph concluded that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic.” Yet seven months later the European Food Safety

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European Parliament backs glyphosate, with conditions

By Barbara Lewis, GFM Network News April 13, 2016

Brussels | Reuters — European politicians advised on Wednesday that the herbicide glyphosate should only be approved for another seven years, rather than the 15 proposed by the EU executive, and should not be used by the general public. Environmental campaigners have demanded a ban on glyphosate, which is used in products such as Monsanto’s

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Germany backs EU plan to approve glyphosate

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 12, 2016

Berlin | Reuters –– Germany plans to back an European Union proposal that would allow the continued use of glyphosate in herbicides, according to a letter from the agriculture ministry. Glyphosate is used in many herbicides including Monsanto’s Roundup, but has provoked a dispute between EU and U.N. agencies over whether it might cause cancers.

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Tag Archives Glyphosate

EU delays vote on glyphosate license amid cancer row

U.S. study finds no risks to people, planet in GMOs

U.N. experts find glyphosate unlikely to cause cancer

Germany looks set to abstain in EU glyphosate vote

U.S. lawmakers put pressure on EPA over glyphosate review

Digital agriculture the next big thing, says Monsanto official

U.S. EPA pulls back report saying glyphosate not likely carcinogenic

Scientists take sides: Who’s right about glyphosate?

European Parliament backs glyphosate, with conditions

Germany backs EU plan to approve glyphosate

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