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20 May 2016 | By Katie Sadler
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces acceptance of Renaissance BioScience’s GRAS notification for Non-GMO Acrylamide-Reducing Yeast.
13 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Arla says that retailers are increasingly demanding dairy products from cows which have been fed GM free feed and are willing to pay a price premium...
12 May 2016 | By Innova Market Insights
Innova Market Insights discuss the marked upturn in interest in GMO-free or non-GMO products in the final part of their clean label series...
27 January 2016 | By Victoria White
A study has found consumers are more supportive of GM labelling decisions when they believe the company considered the public's input in the process...
8 January 2016 | By Victoria White
Campbell Soup Company has announced its support for the enactment of US federal legislation to establish a single mandatory labelling standard for foods derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs)...
9 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Suntava is a plant-based specialty ingredients company best known for its proprietary Suntava Purple Corn...
20 November 2015 | By Victoria White
AquAdvantage Salmon is an Atlantic salmon that reaches market size more quickly than non-genetically engineered farm-raised Atlantic salmon...
30 October 2015 | By Victoria White
Leading farming, agricultural and plant science organisations have issued a stark warning to the UK Government about the impact of European legislation on GM feed imports...
26 June 2015 | By Victoria White
The results of the genetically modified (GM) wheat field trial held by Rothamsted Research in 2012-2013 have been announced...
1 June 2015 | By Victoria White
A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has identified a set of genes that control stem cell production in tomatoes...
22 April 2015 | By Victoria White
Sweet potatoes from all over the world naturally contain Agrobacterium genes, making sweet potatoes 'natural genetically modified organism (GMO)’...
18 November 2014 | By The European Parliament and Council
EU politicians have backed a plan to allow nations to ban genetically modified crops on their soil, even if they are given approval to be grown in the European Union, raising the chance their use will remain limited on the continent...
1 May 2012 | By Gijs A Kleter, RIKILT; John B Unsworth, Private Consultant and Caroline A Harris, Exponent International
Global agriculture has witnessed a continuously increasing adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops, both in terms of the area covered with these crops and the number of countries where these crops are grown. In 2011, the total worldwide acreage of these crops amounted to 160 million hectares, with the top…
26 August 2010 | By Gijs A. Kleter, RIKILT – Institute of Food Safety, Wageningen University and Research Centre
Genetically modified (GM) crops that are used for producing human food and animal feed are grown on a continuously increasing scale around the globe. Their worldwide acreage reached 134 million hectares in 2009, most of which was located in North and South America, China, India and South Africa, and growth…
20 February 2009 | By Gijs A. Kleter, RIKILT – Institute of Food Safety, Wageningen University and Research Center
In the mid-nineties, genetically modified crops (GM) that had been obtained through recombinant DNA technology were grown commercially at a large scale for the first time. The agricultural area that is covered with these crops has since then grown steadily, reaching 114 million hectares globally in 20072. GM crops and…
