Carey Gillam
Despite safety record, glyphosate fears may prompt EPA to test for residue
U.S. regulators may start testing food products for residues of the world's most widely used herbicide, the Environmental Protection Agency ...
Chemophobia: Testing foods for glyphosate rises with fears over health risk
U.S. consumer groups, scientists and food companies are testing substances ranging from breakfast cereal to breast milk for residues of ...
EPA to place restrictions on glyphosate due to weeds developing resistance
U.S. regulators will put new restrictions on the world's most widely used herbicide to help address the rapid expansion of ...
IARC scientist defends his finding that glyphosate is likely carcinogenic
A World Health Organization group's controversial finding that the world's most popular herbicide "probably is carcinogenic to humans" was based ...
New generation herbicide-tolerant soybeans, cotton gain USDA approval
Monsanto Co. received final U.S. approval on Thursday for herbicide-tolerant crops to be used with a new herbicide the company ...
GM corn varieties facing battle with armyworms
Crop-devouring armyworms are showing increasing resistance in some U.S. farm fields to a popular type of genetically modified crop that ...
Dow restricts new GMOs to avoid upsetting Chinese trade
Dow AgroSciences' decision to severely restrict U.S. introduction of its Enlist genetically modified crops and herbicide - billed as the ...
Consumer Reports: Most processed foods labeled “natural” contain GMOs
A majority of U.S. packaged foods labeled as "natural" and tested by Consumer Reports actually contained a substantial level of ...
Audio: Lobbying on GMO labeling now ‘booming business’
Interview with Carey Gillam, a food and agriculture reporter for Reuters. Across the globe, 64 countries have enacted mandatory labeling laws for GMO ...
GMO labeling opponents spent over $27 million in six months
Opponents of mandatory labeling for foods made with genetically modified organisms spent more than $27 million in the first six ...
USDA likely to approve new GM crops that resist two herbicides
U.S. regulators said they are leaning toward approval of a new line of herbicide-tolerant crops developed by Monsanto Co even ...
Organic farmers say USDA needs to control GMO contamination
Growing crops free from contamination by genetically modified crops and the pesticides used on those biotech versions is getting more ...
USDA report says GM crops show mix of benefits, concerns
After more than 15 years of using genetically modified crops, U.S. farmers are continuing to see an array of benefits, ...
It’s not easy going ‘non-GMO,’ say US food companies
U.S. food companies are rushing to offer consumers thousands of products free of genetically modified ingredients but are finding the ...
Organic food and farm groups ask Obama to require GMO food labels
Four U.S. lawmakers joined with more than 200 food companies, organic farming groups, health and environment organizations and other groups on Thursday ...
Monsanto says biotech wheat moves closer to market
Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, said Wednesday it was making good progress on development of an herbicide-tolerant wheat, pushing ...
USDA will not take action in case of GMO alfalfa contamination
The detection of a small amount of genetically modified material in a Washington state farmer's non-GMO alfalfa crop constitutes a ...
USDA weighing options in Washington GMO alfalfa contamination case
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is evaluating whether or not to take action in the case of a Washington state ...
Washington state testing alfalfa for GMO contamination
Agriculture officials in Washington state are testing samples of alfalfa after a farmer reported his hay was rejected for export ...
Illinois: GMO corn failing to protect fields from pest damage
Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a ...
U.S. farm, food groups want better oversight of GMO field trials
More than 150 U.S. farm and food businesses and organizations on Wednesday called for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...
Monsanto wins defense against organic farmers’ lawsuit over seed contamination
Monsanto Co. won another round in a legal battle with U.S. organic growers as an appeals court threw out the ...
Tests so far show commercial wheat seed GM-free, sabotage a real possibility
The following is an excerpt. Monsanto said Wednesday that broad testing of commercial wheat seeds in Oregon and Washington state ...
Monsanto backing away from GE crops in Europe
The following is an edited excerpt. Monsanto is not pushing for expansion of genetically modified crops in most of Europe ...
U.S. GMO food labeling drive has biotech industry biting back
The following is an excerpt. New efforts to force labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill ...
Genetically engineered salmon company expects US regulatory OK in 2013
The following is an excerpt. CHICAGO, April 23 (Reuters) - AquaBounty Technologies Inc expects regulatory approval by the fourth quarter ...
Monsanto and DuPont settle GM seed battle
The following is an edited excerpt. DuPont Co will pay Monsanto Co at least $1.75 billion in a new licensing ...
Record-setting 170.3 million hectares of biotech crops grown globally in 2012
The following is an excerpt. Developing countries accounted for the first time last year for more than half the global ...