About 260 Chinese volunteers participated in a taste test of genetically modified (GM) rice, hoping to reassure the public about the food.
Agricultural experts and the public are calling on authorities to accelerate progress on information disclosure about genetically modified food.
Experts in genetically modified product research have revealed that they petitioned the central government in July to increase the production of genetically modified crops.
A U.S. university has issued an apology for conducting research on Chinese school-children by feeding them golden rice.
Chinese agricultural experts have clarified a list of genetically modified food that has been officially approved, a move in response to wide debates over the safety of such products in daily life.
A war of words by two online celebrities has aroused a new round of debate on the safety of genetically modified (GM) food.
A reported correlation between genetically modified soybeans and cancer is the focus of the latest debate over food safety in China.
Given the general global opposition to transgenic food technology on health and environmental grounds, China should adopt a careful approach to commercial production of GM crops.
As GM food flows into China, the country has to face up to questions such as safety and farmers being priced out of the market.
China’s agricultural ministry has announced that it recently approved the import of three types of genetically modified soy beans.
China's agricultural authorities issued biosafety certificates to three new overseas varieties of genetically modified soybeans on Thursday.
China's top health authority has ordered an investigation into an allegation that genetically modified golden rice was tested on Chinese schoolchildren in Hunan province in 2008 as part of a Sino-US research project.