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Did Monsanto write Malawi’s seed policy?

Monsanto’s man in Malawi co-wrote government policy that threatens to outlaw farmer seed saving

Africans must not be used as guinea pigs for untested high-risk new GM technology

RNAi technology should be unequivocally banned by all member states of the African Union

Bayer-Monsanto deal faces deeper scrutiny in Europe

European antitrust regulators have opened an investigation into Bayer’s $56 billion deal with Monsanto, a transaction that would create the world’s largest integrated pesticides and seeds company

Canadians unknowingly eating GM food

Canada has become the first country where a genetically modified animal is sold for human consumption, and Canadians may have unwittingly been eating it over the past year

US farmers confused by Monsanto weedkiller's complex instructions

Monsanto’s instruction label for dicamba was singled out in a lawsuit as evidence that the product may be virtually impossible to use properly

Glyphosate: Why did the NZ EPA ignore the world authority on cancer?

The New Zealand EPA commissioned its own report which found that glyphosate is “unlikely to be genotoxic or carcinogenic”, a significant departure from IARC’s conclusion

US EPA welcomed industry feedback before reversing pesticide ban, ignoring health concerns

Before deciding to reverse a proposed ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, the EPA considered information from industry groups that wanted to keep it on the market – but not from public health or environmental groups

US: Twenty-eight states make it illegal for counties and cities to pass seed laws

More than two dozen state legislatures have passed “seed-preemption laws” designed to block counties and cities from adopting their own rules on the use of seeds, including bans on GMOs

GMO food toxicity assessments need upgrading regarding exposure time and cumulative toxicity

Studies are not long enough and don’t test mixtures

No dicamba in 2018, weed expert urges

A weed scientist said he couldn't recommend that dicamba be allowed in Arkansas next year after tests showed the herbicide's tendency to move off-target and damage other crops and vegetation