by Claire Robinson and Jonathan Latham, PhD Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, has jested that instead of scientific peer review, its rival The Lancet had a system of throwing a pile …
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Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
by Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years? In the course …
Continue readingTransgenic High-Lysine Corn LY038 Withdrawn After EU Raises Safety Questions
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson A Monsanto/Cargill joint venture has quietly withdrawn its application for high-lysine transgenic corn after EU regulators on the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) GMO panel raised questions about its safety …
Continue readingWelsh Farmer’s Defiance of GMO ‘Ban’ Not So Defiant After All
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson An investigation by Welsh trading standards officers into the claims of a farmer to have contravened Welsh GMO-Free status has concluded there was no evidence that he grew GMO maize.
Continue readingRoundup Ready 2 Yield as much as Conventional Soybeans?
Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Gore Vidal once wrote that “I told you so,” is the most satisfying sentence in the English language. If so, then the imminent launch of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready …
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