Scientists challenge EFSA claim of glyphosate safety
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- Published on Monday, 14 December 2015 06:23
In November, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded that glyphosate is “unlikely to pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans”.
The EFSA decision, based on the Renewal Assessment Report provided by the German federal risk assessment institute BfR, ran counter to the finding earlier this year by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen. The IARC review linked glyphosate to dose-related increases in malignant tumours at multiple anatomical sites in experimental animals and to an increased incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in exposed humans.
http://www.gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/16568Study Linking GMOs and Tumors Vindicated Yet Again
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- Published on Monday, 14 December 2015 06:16
Monsanto Face People’s Trial for Crimes against Humanity
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- Published on Monday, 14 December 2015 06:14
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups announced today that they will take Monsanto MON (NYSE), a US-based transnational corporation, to a people’s trial for crimes against nature and humanity, and ecocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, next year on World Food Day, October 16, 2016.
http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/12/03/monsanto-put-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-the-hague/#.Vm5d7V51u2bPolish GM ban now "agreed" to
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- Published on Monday, 02 November 2015 06:29
Renewal Assessment Report - Glyphosate
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- Published on Monday, 26 October 2015 18:21
Poland applies for GM opt-out as Conservatives’ leader calls Scotland’s GM-free good food policy ‘vote-chasing’
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- Published on Monday, 19 October 2015 17:31
Scottish Farmer’s News Editor, Gordon Davidson, reports that Scottish Conservatives’ leader Ruth Davidson, during First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood, said that the SNP’s stance against GM crops (August 2015) “does nothing to enhance Scotland’s long-standing reputation for scientific creativity”.
https://gmandchemicalindustry9.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/poland-applies-for-gm-opt-out-as-conservatives-leader-calls-scotlands-gm-free-good-food-policy-vote-chasing/
