It’s Time to Reject the Hysteria and Embrace the Science
Contrary to many sensationalist newspaper headlines, the world’s leading weedkiller doesn’t cause cancer in people. That’s the conclusion of the European Che...
European Food Safety Authority
Changes in EU Crop Biotech Import Policy
The EU Commission has proposed to allow member countries to opt out of importing biotech crops similar to the recent provision to opt out of planting biotech cr...
EU Considering Import Opt-Out for Biotech Crops
The EU recently changed its biotech crop approval process to allow member countries to reject planting biotech crops even though they are determined to be safe ...
EU Countries Not Planting Biotech Crops
A few days from now, EU member governments will be allowed to not permit the planting of biotech crops for whatever reason, except to protect the health and saf...
Cultivating Biotech Crops in the EU
After four years of uncertainty, an EU Commission proposal to permit individual countries to opt out of allowing the planting of biotech drops may be approved b...
EU Biotech Decisions
One of the challenges of crafting a new free trade agreement with the EU in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations is overcoming...
An Acceptable Pathogen Reduction Treatment for the EU Poultry Market
The EU poultry meat market has been closed to U.S. producers since 1997 when the EU began blocking imports of U.S. poultry products that had been processed with...
Agricultural Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Issues in the TTIP Talks
The U.S. and the EU will begin negotiations in early July on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). At the initial meeting in Wash...
Crop Biotechnology in the Upcoming U.S.-EU Trade Talks
Negotiators for the U.S. and the EU are finalizing topics for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks that will begin in early July. Bi...
Slow Government Approval of Biotech Crops
The good news concerning approval by the EU Commission for imports of corn for food and feed containing Syngenta’s Agrisure Viptera trait for above ground insec...