30 September 2011 | Volume no: 39 | Issue no: 43
TOP STORIES
- Pesticide water permit Information Collection Request lacking information, stakeholders say
- World pesticide regulators talk greater cooperation, tightening resources
EDITOR'S VIEW
THE DRIFT
ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS
EPA
- EPA risk assessment declares TCE carcinogenic
- EPA to now include full container label under Web-distributed labeling initiative
ENDANGERED SPECIES
BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Monsanto scores major victory in RR seed case
- Syngenta fails in court bid to force Bunge to accept Viptera corn
- European Food Safety Authority to study GM honey issue
- Brazil's biosafety commission approves biotech bean field trials
- Biotech Bits
REACH
- EU commissioner says 2012 REACH review will not be a revision
- ECHA tells firms to act now for REACH 2013 deadline
- Fracking chemicals not REACH compliant, says EU commission official
INTERNATIONAL
- Consumers and food retailers will accept if not embrace crop protection
- EU commission official hedges on publication of nano definition
ORGANIC
BRIEFS
- USDA chemical use surveys again facing cutbacks
- Republicans reiterate call to halt IRIS assessments
- CDC IDs uptick in bedbug pesticide illness cases