GMO News

Italy bans lab-grown food as threat to tradition

Italy wants to safeguard its agri-food heritage, and its agriculture ministry feels high-tech, laboratory-produced food— “from cell cultures or tissues derived from vertebrate animals”—goes against its priority. “Laboratory products in our opinion do not guarantee quality, well-being and the protection of our culture, our tradition,” said Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, a senior member of Prime Minister […]

GMO mosquito experiment halted in California’s Central Valley

Environmentalists, scientists, and unprotected agricultural communities across California were pleased this May when the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) announced the withdrawal of a permit for a mass release of genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Central Valley. The biotech corporation Oxitec won’t be releasing billions of the GM insects in Tulare County without sufficient […]

Non-GMO Project lifts the veil on hidden GMOs in personal health and wellness products

The global personal health and wellness market is expected to increase 25% by 2025—raking in $7 trillion. While most consumers prioritize safe, high-quality dietary supplements and personal care products and cosmetics, the GMOs in these items often go undetected. To move toward a GMO-free wellness industry, the Non-GMO Project has partnered with the United Natural […]

New GMO alert: gene-edited microbes introduce a new twist in GMO agriculture

As many seek new approaches and tangible mechanisms to address the effects of climate change in agriculture, some are opting for solutions that involve an increased reliance on biotechnology. In September of 2022, President Biden issued the Executive Order (EO) on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure America Bioeconomy (EO […]

Doubts about safety of lab-grown meat

Despite lacking long-term safety studies to conclude that consuming lab-grown meat is harmless, some products may end up on restaurant menus this year—such as California-based UPSIDE’s chicken meat. Yet often lab-grown meats are created using immortalized cell lines—cells capable of continuously dividing and replicating as cancer cells grow, Bloomberg recently stated. No evidence has appeared […]