Publications

We outline basic facts as well as provide in-depth information about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the complex issues that they raise. We provide this information in many different formats, for consumers and farmers. We research many important questions raised by the use of this technology in food and farming, including the potential environmental, social and economic impacts.

Factsheets

Market Status Update – For Growers: GM Apples and Apple Trees in Canada. February 2020

“Golden Rice” Vitamin-A Rice. November 2019

Genetically Modified Crops and Herbicides. November 2019

Genetically Modified Salmon. September 2019

GM Contamination in Canada. Report Summary, March 2019

Stop GM Contamination in Canada – Farmer Brief. November 2018

Identifying and Avoiding GM Sweet Corn Seed in Canada: Grower Guide. Updated October 2018

How to Avoid Eating GM Salmon: Consumer Guide. Updated September 2018

Genetic Engineering Will Not “Feed the World”. April 2018

International Bulletin – GM Salmon: Update on the status of GM salmon production in Prince Edward Island, Canada. October 2, 2017

Labelling Genetically Modified Foods, May 2017

GM Alfalfa Contamination in the US and Canada. May 2017

GMOs in Canada: At a Glance. May 2017

Will PEI be the site of the world’s first GM fish factory? April 25, 2017

Market Status Update – for growers: GM Apples and GM Apple Trees in Canada. February 2017.

GM Crop Data Clarified: Interpreting the ISAAA report, February 2013.

Genetically Modified Cotton: February 2013.

Séralini et al. GM corn safety study in context – Introduction and basic comparison. September 2012.

The Genetically Modified “Non-Browning” Apple. November 2012.

Pamphlets

Why Your Food Choices Matter. 2020

No GM Fish. February 2020.

Intro to Gene Editing, January 2019

CBAN’s Quick Guide to GM Foods

GM Alfalfa Update and Action Handouts:

• For Ontario Farmers. January 2017
• For Prairie Farmers. November 2016

GMO Inquiry Report Summary Pamphlets:

• Where in the World are GM Crops and Foods?
• Are GM Crops Better for the Environment?
• Are GM Foods Better for Consumers?
• Are GM Crops Better for Farmers?
• Are GM Crops and Foods Well Regulated?
• Do We Need GM Crops and Foods to Feed the World?

Why Your Food Choices Matter: A Guide to Local and Ecologically Grown Food

Postcards

GM Food Chart Postcard: What’s in my fridge?

Reports

• “Golden Rice” – GM Vitamin-A Rice

• GM Contamination in Canada: The failure to contain living modified organisms – Incidents and impacts

• GMO Inquiry: Do We Need GM Crops to Feed the World?

• GMO Inquiry: Are GM Crops and Foods Well Regulated?

• GMO Inquiry: Are GM Crops Better for Farmers?

• GMO Inquiry: Are GM Foods Better for Consumers?

• GMO Inquiry: Are GM Crops Better for the Environment?

• GMO Inquiry: Where in the World are GM Crops and Foods?

• The Canadian Seed Trade Association’s so-called “Coexistence Plan” is a gateway to GM alfalfa contamination

• The Inevitability of Contamination from GM Alfalfa Release in Ontario

Posters

Where are Genetically Modified Foods?

Articles & Editorials

• CBAN’s 2019 Yule Blog

• Pulling Solutions out of Thin Air: The Dangers of Investing in the Promise of the Techno-Fix

• CBAN’s 2018 Yule Blog

• A fishy return on public investment: The policy collision over genetically modified salmon

• Setting up a Spiral of GMO Contamination

• Golden Rice assumptions wrong

• PEI caught up in AquaBounty’s tangled net

• Where is the GM apple?

• Ottawa should evaluate Canada’s experience with GM crops

• Agriculture Canada to remove Health Canada from safety assessment of some GM foods

Briefings to Government

• Brief for House of Commons Agriculture Committee hearings on public trust

• GM Alfalfa Contamination in the US and Canada

• Labelling Genetically Modified Foods

• Will PEI be the site of the world’s first GM fish factory?

• GMOs in Canada: At a Glance

• CBAN Testimony on GM Animals

• RE: US Government Changes to Requirements for Field Testing Regulated Genetically Engineered Wheat

• CBAN Comments on Draft Policy on “Low Level Presence”

• CBAN Remarks to the UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food

• The Need to Support Bill C-474 & Know the Economic Risk to Export Markets