The deal undermines the vital “precautionary principle”, under which GMOs have been subject to comprehensive risk assessment, both to protect consumers and the environment. It also gives up Parliament ...

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in ...

Europe’s firewall against genetic modification gets a major crack with a new deal on gene-edited crops. Crops tailor-made using new gene-splicing techniques should face fewer regulations than ...

Agreement over lighter-touch regulation marks first big loosening of rules since ‘Frankenfoods’ outcry 20 years ago ...

Are there GMOs lurking in your pantry? Without clear on-package labeling, GMO foods are surprisingly hard to avoid. Are there GMOs lurking in your pantry? Without clear on-package labeling, GMO foods ...

The National Academy of Sciences — probably the country's most prestigious scientific group — has reaffirmed its judgment that GMOs are safe to eat. But the group's new report struck a different tone ...

When fast-food chain Chipotle announced last week that it had ditched ingredients containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), you may have looked at your beloved burrito bowl a little ...

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have the ability to cause "an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet." This warning, as emotional and overstated as it sounds, ...

Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and the author of Safe Foods: The Politics of Food Safety. The ...

The tail of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is seen in the imagery captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on ...

The National Academy of Sciences — probably the country's most prestigious scientific group — has reaffirmed its judgement that GMOs are safe to eat. But the group's new report struck a different tone ...