Thursday, 23 January 2025 — GM Watch ACTION ALERT: Keep GMO food regulated and labelled! Sign the petition urging the European Commission and EU national governments to take a strong stand against any attempts to exclude new GMOs from the existing EU GMO legislation and to uphold mandatory safety checks, transparency and labelling for all Continue reading

Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — GM Watch There is no “magic threshold” for new GMO safety Testbiotech has published a new backgrounder summarising recent research showing clear evidence that the EU Commission proposal for the future regulation of plants obtained from new genetic engineering (new genomic techniques, NGT) is inadequate. It would be outdated before Continue reading

Tuesday, 21 January 2025 — GM Watch Poland’s gene editing gamble leaves EU Member States baffled Poland’s bid to end an EU impasse on new gene-edited crops has flopped after its much-anticipated patent proposal was met with confusion from other member states. Poland’s proposal was meant to unite the bloc and secure a deal before Continue reading

Thursday, 12 December 2024 — GM Watch GM salmon company AquaBounty shuts down operations The troubled biotechnology company AquaBounty has announced it will stop production of all genetically modified salmon and is closing its last working facility, at Bay Fortune in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, reports Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN). AquaBounty released the Continue reading

Friday, 6 December 2024 — GM Watch Study reveals lasting effects of glyphosate on brain health New research has shown even brief exposure to the weedkiller chemical glyphosate can cause lasting damage to the brain, which may persist long after any direct exposure ends. In the new study, Arizona State University researcher Ramon Velazquez and Continue reading

Tuesday, 3 December 2024 — GM Watch Victory! US federal court strikes down lax GMO rules, halts GE crop introductions without USDA oversight In a precedent-setting victory for food and environmental safety, a federal district court in the US has ruled that genetically engineered (GE) organisms must be regulated. The Court’s ruling overturns the 2020 Continue reading

Thursday, 28 November 2024 — GM Watch New Zealand: Farmers want consultation on gene editing changes The vast majority – 93% – of farmers surveyed think it is important that there is widespread consultation with farmers and growers on changes to New Zealand’s gene editing regulations. Account director at research company Truwind (formerly Research First) Continue reading

Wednesday, 20 November 2024 — GM Watch New Zealand: Market, not scientists, must drive GM stance Concerned dairy farmers are asking the New Zealand government to slow the process of weakening the GMO laws. They say New Zealand dairy is the gold standard for non-GMO supply, but the government seems determined to wreck that. They Continue reading

Monday, 4 November 2024 — GM Watch US government paid PR firm to track and vilify critics of GMOs and pesticides Covert PR operations involving the secret profiling of over 3,000 people and organisations considered “critics” of the pesticide industry recently made headlines around the world. The secret profiles, including ones on GMWatch and its Continue reading

Friday, 25 October 2025 — GM Watch Landmark Supreme Court of Appeal judgment on the precautionary principle in GMO decision making The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) on 22 October reported on a groundbreaking ruling against Bayer-Monsanto and five state respondents in South Africa, which set aside several layers of decision-making regarding the approval of Continue reading

Wednesday, 23 October 2024 — GM Watch South Africa: Court ruling sets aside commercial approval of GM drought-tolerant maize A precedent-setting ruling by the South African Supreme Court of Appeal in favour of African Center for Biosafety (ACB) vs Monsanto/Bayer has set aside the commercial approval of GM drought-tolerant maize. ACB said: “South Africa’s Supreme Continue reading

Tuesday, 22 October 2024 — GMWatch AI + synthetic biology: What could possibly go wrong? GMO soybeans and corn were a pale forerunner of what is about to happen: the marriage of artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology. For many years already scientists have been able to create novel sequences of DNA, and they’ve already Continue reading