The European Commission has received almost 6,500 comments on plans to simplify food and feed safety legislation. Feedback ...

If you're looking to avoid chemicals and genetic alterations within your food, you will want to avoid restaurants that use ...

As Canada reviews national standards for food labelling, new research commissioned by the Canadian Health Food Association ...

Vegetable oils have wide-ranging uses, playing a role in everything from food processing, to perfume production to the manufacture of biofuels. With demand only expected to increase, a team of ...

The European Commission, which is the executive arm of the European Union, recently announced that it intends to loosen rules for gene-edited plants. Seeds derived through gene-editing technologies ...

Small and medium-sized breeders and farmers have no chance to navigate the complex and growing web of patents on plants and ...

Genetic engineering is considered one of the most sophisticated scientific tools for changing the genetic blueprint of a living organism according to our suitable design. This attention-seeking branch ...

Research suggests that negative perceptions of genetically modified and genetically engineered foods could be easing, promoting some to suggest that consumers in Europe are ready to move on from ...

For decades, excessive, unscientific regulation has slowed innovation using molecular genetic engineering. Policymakers must awaken to the realization that regulations based on pseudoscience or ...

The world’s largest network of environmental groups approved the exploration of genetic engineering tools to aid in the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Guy Poppy is a professor of ecology at the University of Southampton, UK, and was chief scientific adviser to the UK Food Standards Agency from 2014 until 2020. Even though most people have no ...