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“The industry can influence the scientific literature used for […] the work of experts”. This observation was not made by NGOs opposed to Bayer, Corteva or other multinationals. It was formulated by a committee of French experts, the Anses, which is notably involved in dealing with applications for GMO and pesticide authorizations. In a report […]

On 24 April 2023, the European Ombudsman opened an inquiry against the European Commission in the context of the planned revision of the GMO regulation. Whereas the European Commission is losing support on its legislative agenda, this inquiry seems to weaken it even more. For several years, the European Commission has been considering a new […]

Commissioned by the European Parliament, a recent report examines the independence and transparency policies of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The agency is responsible for issuing scientific opinions on applications for authorisation to market GMOs. The report concludes that it can do better. Created in the wake of the mad cow crisis and other […]

At the beginning of March 2023, the french expert agency, the Anses, listed the situations which limit the quality of its scientific expertise, such as conflicts of interest, urgency, the impossibility of taking into account the most recent data, etc. The GMO dossier is not quoted among the examples, but the observations made by the […]

The European Commissioners will not discuss the potential new regulatory framework for GMOs on June 7, 2023, as initially planned. Indeed, the Commission has decided to postpone its internal discussions to the end of June at the earliest. But the context of the last few weeks may also suggest that such a proposal might not […]

For the two years, the European Commission has apparently been losing several supporters to its project to deregulate many GMOs. The concerns of several member states came to light on March 16, 2023, during a meeting of European environment ministers. A week before the European Council of Environment Ministers on March 16, 2023, Austria sent […]

Recently, some seed companies in France and Germany have denounced what opponents of GMOs have been saying for years: deregulating the new techniques of genetic modification would allow appropriation of life through patents. But the solution favoured by some seed companies is not to keep the GMO label as a trace of patents in a […]

  The rampant industrialisation of our environment over the past century has led to the disappearance of many living species. This sixth mass extinction is the first one specifically attributed to human action. In the face of this observation, several political and scientific approaches have been proposed, which do not tackle the causes but try […]

Precision agriculture, the new avatar of agribusiness, invests in robotics, digital technology and genetics [1]. This technological overkill is presented as a solution to many of the failures of industrial agriculture. In the livestock sector, will it allow, as it is often put forward, to improve the living conditions of animals ? hors note that the effectiveness […]