Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Pregnant women who eat beef from cattle treated with growth-promoting hormones may be damaging the future fertility of their unborn sons. New findings suggest that hormones widely given to American …
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FOE Report Criticises EU Biotechnology Strategy as ill-focussed and not evidence-based
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson A major stated goal of the European Union is to integrate and support ecological sustainability, job creation and competitiveness as stated in the form of the Lisbon objectives. These goals …
Continue readingContaminated Rice Cultivar Banned in Arkansas
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson As part of an ongoing US effort to purge contaminating transgenic traits from rice varieties, the state plant board of Arkansas has banned the BASF rice variety Clearfield 131. Clearfield …
Continue readingTransgenic Bt Maize Pollen Harms Swallowtails
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Pollen from a Bt insect resistant maize is highly toxic to the European common swallowtail butterfly (Papilio Machaon) according to a paper published last week in the journal Basic and …
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