Wednesday, 9 September 2026 — GMWatch European Chemicals Agency dismisses Ramazzini findings of glyphosate carcinogenicity In a September 8, 2026 meeting, the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA’s) Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) concluded that glyphosate does not warrant a classification for carcinogenicity, even after reviewing new data from the Ramazzini Institute. ECHA’s conclusion reiterates the findings of… Continue reading

Tuesday, 8 September 2026 — GMWatch Pakistan: GMO maize plan termed dead end for agriculture The GMO maize plan announced last week has sparked significant backlash, with agricultural stakeholders expressing concerns over what they call erosion of agricultural sovereignty, potential export failures, and bio-security threats. The national agriculture sector is heading for a major confrontation… Continue reading

Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found. Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year. Continue reading

Friday, 28 August 2026 — GM Watch Response to USDA deregulation of failed GMO chestnut The Global Justice Ecology Project released the following statement regarding the announcement by the USDA of the decision to deregulate the genetically engineered (GE) Darling 54 American chestnut tree: “Given the current trend toward the disregard of science and concern… Continue reading

Friday, 21 August 2026 — GM Watch UK: Hollywood actor seeks help from vicar for series A Shropshire vicar played a key role in a new two-part BBC documentary featuring Welsh Hollywood actor Michael Sheen’s investigation into toxic waste dumps. The Rev Paul Cawthorne is also a long time environmental campaigner. He began looking into… Continue reading

Thursday, 20 August 2026 — GMWatch Former Fauci adviser pleads guilty to conspiracy to conceal Covid-19 records A former adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to ​grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic. David Morens, who had worked under… Continue reading

While our recent GMWatch Reviews have focused on major developments on the GM front, a huge amount has also been happening involving glyphosate – the herbicide GM crops have helped to make the most used in the world, being responsible for more than half of all global glyphosate use and 85-95% of the use in… Continue reading

The makers of the remarkable film In Symbiosis, which documents what’s wrong with the food system (including GMOs and pesticides) and points the way to a better future, need to raise £12000 to enable the film to be seen by the public in cinemas worldwide. They’re half way towards their goal – please help them… Continue reading

Monday, 13 April 2026 — GM Watch UK: Legal challenge to deregulation of “precision bred” GMOs A reminder that the High Court has confirmed that Beyond GM’s challenge to the Government’s deregulation of genetically modified “precision bred” organisms in food and farming will be heard at a rolled-up hearing over 12-13 May. This means the… Continue reading

Friday, 3 October 2025 — GM Watch RIP Dame Jane Goodall We were sad to hear of the death, at the age of 91, of the primatologist Dame Jane Goodall. She was a pioneer researcher into animal sentience, especially as it related to her beloved chimpanzees, which she observed in their natural habitat. She outraged… Continue reading

Monday, 15 September 2025 — GM Watch Game-changing gene-edited products coming soon to UK supermarkets due to Brexit? Er… maybe not According to a GMO-boosterish article in the Telegraph, “Britain’s first genetically-edited (GE) foods will be on supermarket shelves in the new year as a result of Brexit freedoms. Crops which have been genetically edited… Continue reading

Thursday, 11 September 2025 — GM Watch Are GMOs safe? A molecular geneticist speaks out Are genetically engineered foods safe? In an interview with Stacy Malkan of US Right to Know, the leading molecular genetics expert Prof Michael Antoniou discusses the scientific evidence behind health concerns tied to GM corn and pesticides, how GMOs are… Continue reading

Thursday, 28 August 2025 — GM Watch New Zealand: GM not needed to reduce methane emissions from cows Why risk contaminating New Zealand with GMOs when nature already has the answers? In a video clip, dairy farmer Paul Bosher explains why Crown Research Institute (publicly funded) scientists are pushing GMOs, even though there are other… Continue reading

Wednesday, 20 August 2025 — GM Watch Regulators use double standards when evaluating scientific evidence indicating harm UK, US and European regulatory institutions have for many years been repeatedly subjecting evidence of possible harm from constituents of our food supply to severe critical scrutiny, while accepting seemingly reassuring studies and data uncritically, a new peer-reviewed… Continue reading

Thursday, 7 August 2025 — GM Watch GM microorganisms pose huge challenges for risk assessment and governance A recent review by researchers from Environment Agency-Austria, Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation identifies critical biosafety and wider governance risks of environmental applications of genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs), including those developed… Continue reading

Tuesday, 5 August 2025 — GM Watch France’s national medical association takes stand against pesticides amidst outcry over new law A petition signed by over two million people has reignited the debate in France over the so-called “Duplomb law”, which was passed by the lower house of the French parliament on 8 July. The record-breaking… Continue reading