Food & Water Watch and the Center for Food Safety asked FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to correct an AquaBounty executive's claim that the agency has already decided its GMO salmon will be sold unlabeled. It is their third such request, and FDA has not acted.
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Genetically modified foods, labeling and the debate around them.
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Get the truth about GMOs
A promotional notice for the 2014 Food Revolution Summit, a week of free online interviews with 24 food and nutrition experts including Michael Hansen, Andrew Kimbrell, Vani Hari, Ken Cook and Raj Patel.
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Organic Consumers Association Newsletter: The GMO Elephant in the Room
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter noting that the FDA's first nutrition label overhaul in 20 years, promoted by Michelle Obama, changes serving sizes, calorie type and listed vitamins, but says nothing about genetically modified ingredients.
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Organic Consumers Association Newsletter: Wat the FDA hid from you
The Organic Consumers Association argues the FDA has long known routine antibiotic use in livestock harms human health and calls its December 2013 plan voluntary and loophole-ridden. It cites CDC figures of two million resistant infections and 23,000 deaths a year.
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Do you know which foods are genetically engineered?
The Center for Food Safety describes its free True Food Shoppers Guide, first published in October 2000, which helps shoppers spot and avoid genetically engineered foods while US labeling remains absent, unlike in most of the country's major trading partners.
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Smithsonian reports GMO soybean pollen threatens Mexican honey sales (PR)
Smithsonian researcher David Roubik and colleagues found GMO soybean pollen in six honey samples from nine hives in Campeche, the kind of contamination that leads European buyers to cut prices or reject Mexican honey. Scientific Reports published the work.
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Gluten Disorders linked to GMOs-New Report
The Institute for Responsible Technology released a report proposing a link between genetically modified foods and gluten-related disorders, drawing on USDA data, EPA records, medical journal reviews and international research. It notes gluten-free eaters often shift to corn, 88 percent of it GM.
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The GMO Mini-Summit is off to an amazing start!
A newsletter recapping day one of an online GMO mini-summit: Vandana Shiva on the gene pool, Andrew Kimbrell on herbicide-resistant superweeds and crops pending approval for 2,4-D, and Robyn O'Brien on food allergy rates rising alongside GE crops.
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GE foods
An Environmental Working Group pledge drive for Washington state's I-522 ballot initiative requiring labels on genetically engineered ingredients, which food and chemical companies are spending millions to defeat.
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Announcing... The GMO Mini Summit!
The Institute for Responsible Technology, John and Ocean Robbins and the Food Revolution Network announce a free three-day online GMO Mini-Summit for October 25 to 27, 2013, with speakers on studies of GMOs and Roundup, GMO labeling efforts and avoiding GMOs at home.
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Exclusive: Has GMO Alfalfa Already Contaminated Non-Alfalfa Fields?
Washington State officials confirmed GMO contamination after a farmer's hay was rejected for export, the Baltimore Sun reported on September 11. Mercola notes critics warned before the 2011 approval of Roundup-resistant alfalfa that cross-pollination could not be contained.
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Attacks on Health Reporters and Their Readers Are Escalating
Mercola says a UNICEF report tracking pro-vaccine-safety voices in Central and Eastern Europe named him alongside sites such as GreenMedInfo and NaturalNews, and he reads the listing, and industry criticism of his Roundup and GMO reporting, as an attempt to discredit health writers.
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Four Dangers to Infants You Need to Be Aware of
Mercola flags four overlooked risks to infants: poor gut health, flame retardant chemicals, too little vitamin D and GMO exposure. He cites a Norwegian study that tied Bacteroides in month-old boys to reduced growth and early E. coli to normal growth.
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The Exciting Groundswell That's About to Topple Monsanto
Mercola and Jeffrey Smith discuss GMO labeling after Proposition 37's narrow defeat, which both credit with spreading awareness. Smith argues the US is nearing the 'tipping point of consumer rejection' Europe hit in 1999, when Unilever, Nestle and others dropped GM ingredients.
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13 Lies GMO Labeling Opponents are Recycling in Washington State
The Organic Consumers Association rebuts arguments against Washington's I-522 GMO labeling initiative, citing the European Union's labeling since the 1990s with no resulting rise in grocery costs, and the $46 million spent to defeat California's Proposition 37.
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Missing in Action from the Latest GMO Labeling Battle: The Organic and ‘Natural’ Elite
The Organic Consumers Association faults large organic and natural-products companies and their trade groups for sitting out Washington's I-522 GMO labeling fight, while a smaller set including Dr. Bronner's, Nature's Path and PCC Markets funded the Yes campaign.
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OREGON: Learn How to Ban GMOs in Your County
Organizer Paul Cienfuegos is offering three-hour virtual workshops, followed by a 90-minute group call, on writing Community Rights ordinances in Oregon counties. He helped Benton and Lane counties put local GMO crop bans on the May 2014 ballot.
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Monsanto’s NK603 corn safety meets no consensus in Brazil
A press release from Brazilian researchers: the national biosafety commission CTNBio rejected Seralini's study linking NK603 maize and Roundup to more tumors in rats, but reached the decision by vote rather than consensus, and the contesting document repeats criticisms Seralini had already answered.
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