European Food Safety Authority

It’s Time to Reject the Hysteria and Embrace the Science

Ian PigottMarch 23, 2017

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...

Crop Protection & DiseasePrecision Ag, Water, Soil0 Comments 0

Changes in EU Crop Biotech Import Policy

Ross KorvesApril 30, 2015

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...

Agricultural TechnologyBarriers, Market Access, Other IssuesFood LabelingFood Safety0 Comments 0

EU Considering Import Opt-Out for Biotech Crops

Ross KorvesApril 9, 2015

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 ...

Agricultural TechnologyBarriers, Market Access, Other IssuesFood LabelingFood Safety0 Comments 0

EU Countries Not Planting Biotech Crops

Ross KorvesMarch 5, 2015

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...

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Cultivating Biotech Crops in the EU

Ross KorvesSeptember 18, 2014

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...

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EU Biotech Decisions

Ross KorvesAugust 28, 2014

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...

Agricultural TechnologyInfrastructureTransAtlantic Trade & Investment Partnership0 Comments 0

An Acceptable Pathogen Reduction Treatment for the EU Poultry Market

Ross KorvesApril 3, 2014

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...

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesFood SafetyLivestock, Animal Ag, Protein0 Comments 0

Agricultural Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Issues in the TTIP Talks

Ross KorvesJune 13, 2013

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...

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Crop Biotechnology in the Upcoming U.S.-EU Trade Talks

Ross KorvesMay 23, 2013

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...

Agricultural TechnologyBarriers, Market Access, Other IssuesTransAtlantic Trade & Investment Partnership0 Comments 0

Slow Government Approval of Biotech Crops

Ross KorvesNovember 8, 2012

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...

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Trade

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Technology

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Sharing A GM Technology Testimony From India to Uganda