A major change to the regulation of biotech in the United States will exempt some GM crops from government oversight.

NEWS A Californian judge has upheld a jury verdict that found Monsanto liable for not warning a groundskeeper that its weed killer Roundup might cause cancer. […]

NEWS Jurors who awarded $289 million to Dewayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper who is dying of cancer, are imploring a San Francisco judge to reconsider her […]

NEWS Australia’s top-tier cancer body has called for an independent review of the world’s most well-known herbicide, which has been linked to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. COMMENT As […]

NEWS Bayer, the new owner of the agrochemical company Monsanto, has admitted that the number of U.S. lawsuits against the Roundup maker has risen to around […]

NEWS Popular oat cereals, oatmeal, granola and snack bars come with a hefty dose of glyphosate, the weed-killing poison in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, according to independent […]

NEWS Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m in damages to a former school groundsman who says working with herbicides containing glyphosate caused him […]

NEWS Europe’s executive body, the so-called ‘European Commission’, has authorized five GM crops for use in food and feed. COMMENT Along with the vast majority of […]