Dec. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology, Publications
A private firm is planning to release potentially harmful genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys as early as January, endangering human health and the environment in what would become the first-ever U.S. release of these engineered ...
Read More »Dec. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Food and Technology, Legal, News Releases
San Francisco, Calif. -- Concerned by the growing body of scientific reports cautioning against the unregulated use of nanotechnology in consumer products, a coalition of nonprofit consumer safety and environmental groups sued the Food and Drug Ad...
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Dec. 16, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Yesterday morning, the Senate Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard held a hearing on the environmental risks posed by genetically engineered salmon (archived webcast of the hearing available). As you may ...
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Dec. 1, 2011 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Food and Technology
Due to an onslaught of recent critiques and a trading scandal involving the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a diverse coalition has called on Congress to hold hearings on the broken policy.
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