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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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