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The organisation of European organic food processors and retailers (OPTA) rejects GMOs/NGTs, but sets out conditions for their possible adoption. At the beginning of September, a new player took a stand against the European Commission’s proposal to deregulate “new GMOs“, which it has renamed NGTs : Opta (Organic Processing and Trade Association), the European organisation that […]

The organisation of European organic food processors and retailers (OPTA) rejects GMOs/NGTs, but sets out conditions for their possible adoption. At the beginning of September, a new player took a stand against the European Commission’s proposal to deregulate “new GMOs”, which it has renamed NGTs: Opta (Organic Processing and Trade Association), the European organisation that […]

Has the European Commission based its proposal to deregulate GMOs/NTGs on « sound science » or on the demands of seed companies ? Documents obtained by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) show that the Commission chose to listen to the companies rather than its own experts at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The EFSA had indeed asked for […]

Has the European Commission based its proposal to deregulate GMOs/NTGs on “sound science” or on the demands of seed companies? Documents obtained by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) show that the Commission chose to listen to the companies rather than its own experts at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The EFSA had indeed asked for […]

In the USA, in 2012, the authorities decided for the first time to exempt a GMO from regulatory requirements. It was a vine genetically modified by cisgenesis, one of the new techniques of genetic modification. Since then, nearly a hundred « new » GMOs have been the subject of a similar decision. Paradoxically, a decade after this […]

Between 2005 and 2023, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) received and studied 601 applications for commercial authorization for enzymes produced by micro-organisms. These proteins, capable of catalyzing chemical reactions, play an important role in the food and feed industry. As part of our investigation, Inf’OGM consulted the 601 dossiers : almost half of them are […]

Between 2005 and 2023, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) received and studied 601 applications for commercial authorization for enzymes produced by micro-organisms. These proteins, capable of catalyzing chemical reactions, play an important role in the food and feed industry. As part of our investigation, Inf’OGM consulted the 601 dossiers: almost half of them are […]

On 22 August, Frans Timmermans stepped down as a member of the European Commission to stand in the Dutch parliamentary elections to be held in the autumn of this year. A former executive vice-president of the European Commission, Timmermans was the architect of the European Green Deal, a package of legislative proposals that includes the […]

Eight years after its first releases of transgenic mosquitoes in Panama, Oxitec is planning a new phase of studies in the country, in partnership with Panama’s Institute for Scientific Research and High-Tech Services (INDICASAT-AIP) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The stated aim: to study the population dynamics of the GMO mosquito […]