22/October/20

 

The US nonprofit GMO/Toxin Free USA has launched GMOResearch.org, the first-of-its-kind searchable science database of studies and reports on the safety and effects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and associated agrochemicals. GMO Research is the world’s most comprehensive science database on the topic, with over 2,000 studies and journal publications documenting risks and potential and actual harmful effects of GMOs and the related agrochemicals. GMWatch

 

 

Peru will remain GMO-free for 15 more years, Congress decided yesterday. The main argument to extend the moratorium is the the value of the country's crop biodiversity and the role of peasant farmers in feeding the nation with it. The right to healthy food was another of the arguments presented by the legislators. BiodiversidadLA (Spanish)

 

 

In another blow to Monsanto’s German owner Bayer, the California Supreme Court said it will not review a California man’s trial win over claims that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicides gave him cancer. The decision to deny a review in the case of Dewayne “Lee” Johnson marks the latest in a string of court losses for Bayer as it tries to complete settlements with close to 100,000 plaintiffs. US Right to Know

 

 

A new paper by Chilean researchers is the first comprehensive review that consolidates the mechanistic evidence on glyphosate as an endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC). The paper concludes that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world’s most widely used herbicide, meets at least eight of the 10 key characteristics of EDCs, as proposed in an expert consensus statement published in 2020. Chemosphere