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Pause. Slow down. Think it through.  

21 Octo­ber 2026 / EU / GMM / microor­gan­isms
In a state­ment pub­lished on 13 Octo­ber 2026 in the pres­ti­gious French news­pa­per Le Monde, 62 researchers, includ­ing ecol­o­gists and evo­lu­tion­ary biol­o­gists, warn that the Euro­pean Commission’s pro­pos­als risk chang­ing “our rela­tion­ship with the liv­ing world.”
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A digitally colorized microscope image of a wild-stream sample showing bacteria, protozoa, and algae. © Janice Haney Carr

GM microbes: Rising calls to reject the lowering of EU standards

23 Sep­tem­ber 2026 / EU / GMM / microor­gan­isms
Today, 36 civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions from 12 coun­tries urged MEPs to reject plans to weak­en EU safe­ty require­ments for the envi­ron­men­tal release of genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied microor­gan­isms (GMMs), includ­ing bac­te­ria, yeasts, algae and virus­es. The appeal fol­lows a sim­i­lar call from Euro­pean eco­log­i­cal sci­en­tists to main­tain strong safe­guards.
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BiomElix One — the animal feed that generates GM bacteria inside the farm animals eating it

18 Sep­tem­ber 2026 / GMM / microor­gan­isms
Bio­mElix One is a feed addi­tive made of live, genet­i­cal­ly engi­neered bac­te­ria, fed to chick­ens (approved only in Brazil) to reduce Sal­mo­nel­la con­t­a­m­i­na­tion. It works by trans­fer­ring engi­neered DNA to bac­te­ria in the chick­en gut. Each trans­fer cre­ates a new, liv­ing genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied organ­ism that could poten­tial­ly remain in chick­en meat for sale.
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EU governments sign off on far-reaching GMO deregulation

19 Decem­ber 2025 / EU
Brus­sels, 19 Decem­ber 2025 – A qual­i­fied major­i­ty of EU Mem­ber States today backed the dereg­u­la­tion of genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied (GM) plants pro­duced using so-called new genom­ic tech­niques (NGTs). Aus­tria, Bel­gium, Bul­gar­ia, Croa­t­ia, Ger­many, Hun­gary, Roma­nia, Slo­va­kia, and Slove­nia did not indi­cate sup­port dur­ing this morning’s meet­ing of the Com­mit­tee of Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tives (COREPER) in Brus­sels.
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