Food & agriculture

How do agribusiness corporations impact decisions on our food system?

EFSA appoints a food industry lobbyist as Communications Director and refuses to disclose why it did

18.03.2016

The EU Food Safety Authority refuses to disclose new Director's Declaration of Interests and its own assessment of this person's interests.

Conflicts of interest

Conflicts of Interest at the European Food Safety Authority: Enough is enough!

02.03.2016

An Open Letter to the European Parliament's Budget Control Committee

Pesticides & GMOs

Glyphosate relicensing - the story so far

02.03.2016

The relicensing procedure for one of the world's most widely used herbicides

Key evidence withheld as 'trade secret' in EU's controversial risk assessment of glyphosate

17.02.2016

Companies who make the pesticide glyphosate refuse to disclose key scientific evidence about its possible risks in the name of trade secrets protection. CEO appeals to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to disclose all the possible original elements of three key scientific studies it used in assessing glyphosate as “unlikely” to cause cancer to humans. We also call MEPs to reject the Trade Secrets Directive in the April 2016 plenary vote on the final text.

Pesticides & GMOs

Of apples and potatoes: the Dutch lobby for the deregulation of cisgenesis

02.02.2016

The voice of the Dutch Government has been loud and clear in Brussels on the issue of cisgenic plants. The Dutch have waged a sustained campaign to have new GM techniques – and in particular cisgenesis – excluded from EU GMO regulations. Several Dutch ministries, the Dutch Parliament, the Dutch Permanent Representation in Brussels, and Dutch MEPs have energetically pursued this goal.

Pesticides & GMOs

US company railroads EU decision-making on new GM

02.02.2016

At least one developer of new GM crops – US-based Cibus – has attempted to bypass the European policy process by presenting policy makers with a fait accompli: decisions by individual Member States on the regulatory status of new techniques, as well as prematurely-launched trials of new GM crops.

EU review of weedkiller glyphosate adds secrecy to controversy

14.01.2016

More than 80 per cent of the national experts involved in the EU's official assessment of glyphosate refused to have their names disclosed to the public.

Solutions COP21: Climate Smart Agriculture, boosting the technofix

10.12.2015

“If you like greenwashing clap your hands”

EU institutions

The “clear and united voice of experts”?

09.12.2015

Comments on the European Commission's new Scientific Advice Mechanism by Corporate Europe Observatory and the Fondation Sciences Citoyennes

EFSA and Member States vs. IARC on Glyphosate: Has Science Won?

25.11.2015

Monsanto and the pesticide industry breathed a collective sigh of relief on 12 November 2015. The findings of an investigation into the toxicity of glyphosate by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and EU Member States were in stark contradiction to the March 2015 conclusion by the International Agency for Research against Cancer (IARC), a body of the World Health Organization (WHO), that this agricultural herbicide was probably causing cancer to humans. If validated, this conclusion could cause a partial ban of glyphosate in the EU. [UPDATED on 30 11 2015 16.30 CET]

Pesticides & GMOs

Glyphosate – Need for a robust and credible scientific assessment of carcinogenicity

02.11.2015

Open letter to Commissioner Andriukaitis on glyphosate

European Ombudsman calls for 'structural' reform of DG AGRI Expert Groups

11.09.2015

In closing her investigation into DG AGRI's 'Expert Groups', the European Ombudsman has called for more transparency as well as structural measures to ensure groups are more balanced.

Food & agriculture

EFSA appoints a food industry lobbyist as Communications Director and refuses to disclose why it did

Conflicts of Interest at the European Food Safety Authority: Enough is enough!

Glyphosate relicensing - the story so far

Key evidence withheld as 'trade secret' in EU's controversial risk assessment of glyphosate

Of apples and potatoes: the Dutch lobby for the deregulation of cisgenesis

US company railroads EU decision-making on new GM

EU review of weedkiller glyphosate adds secrecy to controversy

Solutions COP21: Climate Smart Agriculture, boosting the technofix

The “clear and united voice of experts”?

EFSA and Member States vs. IARC on Glyphosate: Has Science Won?

Glyphosate – Need for a robust and credible scientific assessment of carcinogenicity

European Ombudsman calls for 'structural' reform of DG AGRI Expert Groups

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