| | 17/December/21
| | Health Canada proposes blind trust in the safety of future GMOs Health Canada is ready to hand over its regulation of new GM foods to the companies that develop them. After over twenty years assessing the safety of mainly herbicide-tolerant GM corn, canola and soy, Health Canada says it can now confidently surrender its safety checks for most of the future GMOs. But it’s a gamble to assume safety rather than assess it, writes Lucy Sharratt of CBAN. In fact, the scientific literature has many serious warnings that such an assumption about gene editing is incorrect. Studies are constantly discovering ways that the processes of gene editing can create genetic errors and result in unintended effects. Yet Health Canada proposes that most of these products can skip regulation entirely, and is developing a scientific rationale to reassure Canadians that this is still a “science-based” approach to the foods we eat every day. Rabble.ca Insects in nature reserves are contaminated with pesticide cocktails A new study from Germany shows that insects in the nature reserves that showed a 76% decline in insect biomass over 26 years are contaminated with a cocktails of pesticides. Biology professor Dave Goulson comments on Twitter that the finding is worrying for the concept of conserving nature on "island" nature reserves. @DaveGoulson on Twitter DONATE TO GMWATCH __________________________________________________________ Website: http://www.gmwatch.org
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