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En juillet 2020, un règlement européen a été adopté permettant des allègements à la législation européenne sur les OGM dans le cadre du développement de vaccins contre la Covid-19. L’évaluation des risques environnementaux liés à l’utilisation d’OGM, ainsi que les procédures d’autorisation, de consentement préalables et d’étiquetage pour le développement de tels vaccins, ne sont […]

In a document published in 2019, EuropaBio, taking a political stand, writes that “genome editing is a recent breeding method that can allow for precise genomic changes to a plant without the insertion of foreign genes”. However, scientific publications puts this “precision” in perspective. In particular, certain biological mechanisms involved in genetic modification processes have […]

Genetically modified bulls, carrying additional DNA ; cells cultivated in vitro are carrying DNA from bacteria, goats or cattle ; a famous GMO maize is not quite what was expected… These are just a few examples showing that the companies do not perfectly master the genetic modification protocols. At a time when such companies are asking the […]

The unintended effects of the implementation of genetic modification protocols were first of all refuted by the pro-GMOs before being recognized as common to any genetic modification process. But there is the frequent denial of such effects, demonstrated by the HCB Scientific Committee in a recent document (July 2020) [1], which has most impact on certain […]

The ambitious legislation on GMOs adopted in 1990 within the European Union is gradually being unravelled. Several decisions were taken at a time when the GMO dossier was the transgenic dossier, but they will necessarily apply to new GMOs. The political world has shown its ability to consider and implement the companies’ erroneous technical arguments. […]

At a time when biological research is (re)discovering the randomness and importance of communication, regulation and natural selection between cells [1] – the whole complexity of living organisms – and when ecology and the evolutionnary time-scale need to be taken into acccount, pro-biotechnology partisans still maintain their paradoxical position of fully controllable genetics. According to the […]

Le 5 novembre 2020, un tribunal de Californie a jugé que l’Agence étasunienne de l’Alimentation et des Médicaments (FDA) n’avait pas respecté la loi en rendant une évaluation incomplète des risques environnementaux liés à un saumon transgénique. S’il a ordonné à la FDA de revoir sa copie, l’autorisation de commercialisation délivrée en 2015, et devenue […]

How did Cibus generate and select the genetic modification present in its 5715 canola? Nearly ten years after the Canadian authorities’ favourable opinion, the question has recently resurfaced after Canada and Cibus changed their presentation. Indeed, the company explains that the main tool it used to generate a mutation was ultimately useless. This technical vagueness […]

Comment l’entreprise Cibus a-t-elle généré et sélectionné la modification génétique présente dans le canola 5715 ? Près de dix ans après l’avis favorable des autorités canadiennes, la question a resurgi récemment après que le Canada et Cibus ont changé de discours. L’entreprise explique en effet que le principal outil qu’elle a utilisé pour générer une mutation […]