TopNews, 20 Feb 2010
Enviropigs will solve environmental problem
It is assumed that the Canadian Government Department will approve genetically modified pigs, the Enviropig, the first transgenic animal created to solve an environmental problem.

Komu HD, 3 Feb 2010
New hybrid tomatoes may prolong shelf life
COLUMBIA - Most produce sold in grocery stores have gone through some genetic alteration process during the plant growth. A recent scientific discovery by the National Academy of Sciences reveals hybrid tomatoes that can still ripe for up to 45 days. That is three weeks longer than the conventional tomato.

AgBioWorld, 8 Feb 2010
European Food Safety Authority analyzes and dismisses the new Seralini Paper
GMO Panel deliberations on the paper by de Vendômois et al. (2009, A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health, International Journal of Biological Sciences, 5: 706-726) - EFSA/GMO/578 – part of the Minutes 55th Plenary Meeting of the GMO Panel Adopted part of the minutes1 of the 55th plenary meeting of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms held on 27-28 January 2010 to be published at http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/event/gmo100127.htm

New Scientist Environment, 22 Jan 2010
Engineered maize toxicity claims roundly rebuffed
MONSANTO, the giant of genetically modified crops, has for the first time been forced to release raw data from toxicology studies it carried out on three strains of its modified maize. An external analysis of the data claims it shows that eating the maize could result in damage to the liver and kidneys, but this has been dismissed as unsupportable by a government agency and independent toxicologists.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand , 8 Jan 2010
FSANZ response to Seraliniet al.(2009), A comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health
Reports in the media refer to a newly published paper in theInternational Journal of Biological Sciences(December 2009) by Séralini and colleagues in which the authors claim to have identified adverse effects in rats fed GM corn using statistical analysis.

The Straits Times, 2 Jan 2010
Seeding a Second Green Revolution
GLOBAL food security will become one of the most difficult problems for mankind in the next 50 years. With the world population rapidly approaching nine billion people, our planet will have to produce more food in the coming decade than it has collectively done so in the last 10,000 years.