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Legal opinion: Do not shift liability risks for new genetic engineering to the EU food industry!

The planned dilution of genetic engineering regulations in the EU would shift safety testing and liability risks for plants produced with new genetic…

New genetic engineering proposal not helpful

The current Polish Council Presidency has presented a new proposal for the future regulation of new genetic engineering in the EU. However, the key…

More field trials with plants from New Genetic Engineering in Europe

The number of experimental releases with plants from new genetic engineering (NGT) in Europe is increasing. In the UK, genetic engineering regulations…

The Non-GMO Project: The American way to create freedom of choice

The USA is the motherland of genetic engineering. Representatives of the Non-GMO Project were guests at the Non-GMO Summit 2024 in Frankfurt, Germany,…

Supply of "Non-GMO" raw materials in the EU is secured

Three market insiders presented the latest information on the market situation for the most important "Non-GMO" crops corn/maize, soy and rapeseed in…

BfR Consumer Monitor: Two thirds are concerned about genetic engineering in food

In the Consumer Monitor published by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), genetic engineering in food has been one of the…

Status quo and prospects for new genetic engineering regulations

At the International Non-GMO Summit 2024, Dr Dietmar Vybiral from the Austrian Ministry of Health provided an up-to-date overview of the controversial…

Hardly any NGT plants ready-to-market worldwide, hardly any climate-resilient varieties

At the International Non-GMO Summit 2024 in Frankfurt, Germany, Dr Samson Simon from the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) provided an…

Traces of genetic engineering in organic rice - The story of a traceability investigation

In July 2023, the food safety monitoring authorities in the German state of Hesse discovered genetic engineering contamination in a sample of organic…

Non-GMO Summit 2024: International Non-GMO industry calls for transparency on NGTs and fair cooperation throughout the whole value chain

More than 160 representatives from a thriving international Non-GMO industry and leading European associations from 23 countries and four continents…

Non-GMO industry meets for the "International Non-GMO Summit"

The leading European associations of the Non-GMO food and feed industry are hosting the "International Non-GMO Summit 2024" in Frankfurt am Main on…

EU Member States position themselves regarding Hungarian NGT paper

The statements of 15 EU Member States in an informal enquiry by the Hungarian Council Presidency on the unresolved issues relating to the deregulation…

GMO-free milk accounts for over 75 percent of total German milk volume

Well over three-quarters of milk in 2023 was produced in Germany without genetic engineering, 72.1 percent conventionally and 4.5 percent under…

Campaign for GMO-free food

From 13 September to 13 October 2024, an alliance of associations and initiatives is promoting a campaign for a GMO-free agriculture and food…

European enterprises call for rigorous labelling of NGTs

Dr István Nagy, current EU Council President for Agriculture and Fisheries, met today with representatives of a business initiative to submit an Open…

Greenpeace supermarket check: "Ohne GenTechnik" seal creates transparency

Greenpeace has regularly surveyed the major grocery chains on their meat ranges since 2020, and on dairy products since 2022. Greenpeace is…

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