Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson A Monsanto/Cargill joint venture has quietly withdrawn its application for high-lysine transgenic corn after EU regulators on the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) GMO panel raised questions about its safety …
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European Community Law and Nanotechnology: A Risky Business?
Naomi Salmon, Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK Following hot on the heels of the ‘Biotechnology Revolution’, the ‘Nanotechnology Revolution’ is now gathering steam. After twenty or so years of basic and …
Continue readingThe Unhealthy Truth: How our Food is Making us Sick and What We Can Do About It
Book Author: Robyn O’Brien (with Rachel Kranz) Reviewed by Jonathan Latham (The Bioscience Resource Project) Allergies and food intolerances are serious medical conditions. They are the cause of many deaths and hospitalizations annually and they …
Continue readingIs a Major GMO Safety Test Ineffective?
Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Commercially, insect-resistant transgenic (GMO) plants are made by inserting a gene coding for one of a family of toxins produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. These Bt …
Continue readingUS: Private Food Safety Labs Hide Negative Tests
Some private U.S. laboratories are under investigation by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for withholding samples of tainted food and allowing importers to continue to bring their contaminated products into the U.S., the …
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