EU countries agreed to push forward with plans to ease current restrictions on some gene-edited crops—a move backed by farmer ...

A majority of EU member states have spoken out in favour of less stringent genetic engineering rules, the EU Council ...

Today EU countries have given a mandate to start negotiations on the deregulation of new GM crops (also called NGTs). Today's meeting of EU ambassadors saw for the first time a qualified majority in ...

The EU is to set to release a new class of genetically modified crops from strict regulation that dates back over 20 years, but MEPs and governments are divided over whether biotech firms should be ...

New genomic techniques can increase food security and mitigate climate change effects. EU rules aim to regulate these plant ...

(In EU countries, products that have ingredients that contain more than 0.9 percent genetically modified organisms are required by law to carry GMO labeling.) The Non-GMO Project certifies ...

"EU governments have voted on the side of a handful of big corporations’ profits, instead of protecting farmers and consumers’ right to transparency and safety" – Friends of the Earth Europe ...

EU countries are teetering on the brink of an agreement which would take new GMOs one step closer to our plates and several ...

The World Health Organization has called for “mandatory and standardised” health warning labels on alcoholic beverages in Europe to raise awareness of the links with cancer. The UN agency ...

Laboratory techniques developed since the EU put in place its current GMO regulations two decades ... and exempted from strict risk assessment and labelling requirements. They would also be ...