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FDA Approves GE Salmon, Voluntary Labeling of GE Ingredients

By Cathy Siegner on November 20, 2015

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, that it has approved for the first time a genetically engineered (GE) animal intended for food. That animal is the AquAdvantage Salmon, which…
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Research Shows GE Plants Produce Proteins Able to Reduce E. Coli on Food

By News Desk on September 14, 2015

A team of scientists is genetically engineering plants to produce antimicrobial proteins known as colicins, which can then be extracted and applied to contaminated meat and produce to kill E. coli bacteria. In a study…
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USDA Gives GE Potato ‘Nonregulated’ Status

By News Desk on August 31, 2015

Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced Friday, Aug. 28, 2015, that they had made a determination of “nonregulated status” for the Innate potato, which is genetically…
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Organic Industry Wants Biotechnology Regulated By Process, Not Product

By Dan Flynn on June 23, 2015

About 40 activist organizations that usually can be counted upon to rally with the organic industry against genetically engineered (GE) plants and animals did just that on Monday. They weighed in with a letter to…
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Witnesses Tell House Agriculture Committee GE Foods are Safe, Don’t Need Labels

By Lydia Zuraw on March 25, 2015

All six witnesses at Tuesday’s House Committee on Agriculture hearing argued against mandatory biotechnology labeling laws. Most of their testimony praised the efficiency they believe GE crops provide to farmers and enumerated the costs they…
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USDA Approves Apples Genetically Engineered to Resist Browning

By News Desk on February 18, 2015

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided to approve new types of apples that have been genetically engineered not to brown as quickly after being cut. Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc., the company that developed the…
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GE Salmon Company Fined Over Permit Problems in Panama

By News Desk on October 31, 2014

The government of Panama has revealed that, in July of this year, it levied a fine on AquaBounty Technologies, the Massachusetts-based company seeking government approval to bring the first genetically modified salmon to market in…
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No Marijuana Exemption in CO Initiative to Label GMOs

By Dan Flynn on August 8, 2014

A Colorado ballot initiative looks like it will make this fall’s general-election ballot after spending less than one-tenth of the amount spent to put a similar measure before Oregon voters in November. Both proposals call…
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