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CIO
October 2, 2013
Chris Kanaracus |
Monsanto Bets Nearly $1 Billion on Big Data Analytics Data science is the next big thing for agriculture, according to Monsanto   |
Chemistry World
October 28, 2013
Arthur Tatham |
Pulse chemistry and technology The book by Tiwari and Singh will benefit anyone researching or working with pulses, and will be useful more generally for food scientists and lecturers in food science at university level, and is a must for libraries. |
Chemistry World
October 21, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
Neonicotinoids let virus thrive in bees Scientists in Italy believe they have found a molecular trigger by which neonicotinoid pesticides may harm colonies of honeybees. |
Chemistry World
August 30, 2013
Patrick Walter |
Syngenta takes legal action over pesticide ban Swiss agrichemical giant Syngenta is mouting a legal challenge to the European commission's decision to introduce a two-year ban on the use of thiamethoxam on bee-attracting crops. |
Chemistry World
August 21, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
EPA pushes pesticide labels to protect bees The US Environmental Protection Agency has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit the use of some neonicotinoid products where bees are present in an effort to protect the health of pollinators. |
Chemistry World
July 22, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Monsanto abandons GM crops in Europe The company will focus on conventional breeding to develop new crop varieties in the EU, and develop biotech crops in regions where they are more accepted, such as North America. |
Chemistry World
July 19, 2013
Laura Howes |
EU to ban fipronil From 31 December 2013, European farmers will not be allowed to use the pesticide fipronil on maize or sunflowers. Some seeds can still be treated if the crops are sown in greenhouses or the crops harvested before flowering. |
Chemistry World
May 22, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
US Supreme Court rules in favour of Monsanto The Supreme Court justices upheld a lower court's ruling that a farmer, Vernon Bowman, violated Monsanto's intellectual property rights by regrowing second-generation seeds. |
Food Processing
April 2013
Dave Fusaro |
Editor's Plate: The Dangers of the Dangers of GMOs It looks like marketing and profiteering are trumping science. |
Chemistry World
April 5, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
Controversial pesticides down but not out The US Environmental Protection Agency is being sued by environmental groups and beekeepers over the use of a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids. The European Food Safety Agency also issued a report highlighting several risks posed to bees. |
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