Upholds Lower Court’s Rulings Requiring New USDA Approval DecisionAnd Rigorous Review of the Crop’s Impacts
Litigation Over USDA’s Interim Approval of Planting Continues
Today the U.S. Court of Appeal
In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, California Bill Could Restore Americans’ Right To Choose In The Marketplace
Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review
On April 26, 2011, the California Assembly Health Committee considered a bill which would require that all GE salmon sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling. The bill, AB 88, was intr
21 Groups: Industrial-Scale CAFO Emissions Meet Legal Standard for Listing as Clean Air Act Criteria Pollutant; Evident Public Health Threat Posed by Ammonia Emissions from Mega-farms.
More than 20 na
The United States may soon be the only country in the world that does not require labeling of genetically engineered food. In Spring 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that labelin
“Roundup Ready” Alfalfa Will Increase Pesticide Use and Cause Grave Harm to Environment and Organic Industry
USDA Failures Guarantee Transgenic Contamination, Creation of More Superweeds
Today, attorn
WHAT: A special screening of the documentary Pig Business with remarks by Robert Kennedy, Jr., followed by a panel discussion with leading experts on the effects that large factory pig farming operati
Sixty-Four Organizations, Fishing Associations and Retailers Endorse Legislation; Lawmakers Cite Serious Economic, Environmental and Human Health Threats
The Center for Food Safety along with 63 other
Impacts on Human Health, Environment, and Farmers Not Fully Assessed
DESPITE RISING GLOBAL FOOD PRICES, OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONCONTINUES MISGUIDED BIOFUELS AGENDA
The Center for Food Safety criticized an
In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop
Today the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a new decision to
Leading organic businesses and trade groups have filed a joint brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of the Center for Food Safety and opposed to Monsanto in the ongoing
Yesterday’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercial planting of Monsanto’s genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready a
ROGUE AGENCY CHOOSES “BUSINESS AS USUAL” OVER SOUND SCIENCE
CENTER ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO USDA’S FLAWED ASSESSMENT
The Center for Food Safety criticized the announcement today by the U
AGENCY DECISION LOOMS AS THIRTY DAY REVIEW PERIOD ON GMO ALFALFA CLOSES
CITING FLAWED SCIENCE, HARM TO FARMERS AND PROLIFERATION OF ROUNDUP-RESISTANT WEEDS, CFS RECOMMENDS TIME OUT ON ROUNDUP READY AL
Settlement of Bombay Hook Suit Makes Southeast Refuges Next Legal Target
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has agreed to stop planting genetically engineered (GE) crops on all its refuges within a doz