Publications

We outline basic facts as well as provide in-depth information about the use of genetic engineering (genetically modified organisms or 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.

Newspaper

CBAN’s Newspaper: Investigating Genetic Engineering, Issue 2023/2024, October 2023.

Factsheets

Proposed Release of Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Trees, March 2025

Guide to a Non-GMO Produce Section, February 2025

Bayer to Launch GM Non-Mustardy Mustard Greens, January 2025

GM Salmon Production Stopped, December 2024

GM Wheat Update, October 2024

Introduction to Genetic Engineering, July 2024

Identifying and Avoiding GM Sweet Corn Seed in Canada: Grower Guide. Updated June 2024

Genetically engineered Bt insect-resistant corn poses human health risks, May 2024

Genetically engineered crops have increased herbicide use, May 2024

Canada and the US Challenge Mexico’s Restrictions on GM Corn, March 2024

Genetically Engineered Salmon in Canada, April 2023

Genetically Modified Crops and Herbicides, March 2023

Pamphlets

Your Food Choices in 2025, June 2025

Genetic Engineering for Conservation? May 2025

CBAN’s Quick Guide to GM Foods. March 2025

Protect Our Seeds From New GMOs: No GMO Salad, January 2025

The Environmental Risks of Genetically Engineering Trees, July 2024

Intro to Gene “Editing”. Updated April 2023

Why Your Food Choices Matter. 2020

Reports

• No GMO Salad Updates and Action Report

• Response to Canada’s Arguments Against Mexico’s GM Corn Restrictions

• Canada & US vs. Mexico’s Ban on GM Corn

• The Global Status of Genetically Engineered Tree Development: A Growing Threat.

• New proposals would eliminate transparency on GMOs in Canada

• Unintended effects caused by techniques of new genetic engineering create a new quality of hazards and risk

• GMO Review

• GMOs in your grocery store: Ranking company transparency

• Genome Editing in Food and Farming: Risks and Unexpected Consequences

• “Golden Rice” – GM Vitamin-A Rice

Postcards

GM Food Chart Postcard: GM Foods on the Market in Canada (January 2025)

Posters

Alert! No GMO Salad (March 2025)

Where are Genetically Modified Foods? (Sept 2024)

Articles & Editorials

• Biotech Winner Takes All

• Mexico’s Precaution on GM Corn Safety Is Justified

• Corporate-Government “Tiger Team” Gutted GMO Regulations

• Brazil’s “Green Deserts”

• New regulatory guidance sets up corporate self-regulation of GMOs

• “Enhancing” Trees and Fixing Ecosystems with Genetic Engineering

• Trading in Forest Stewardship?

• Will Forest Stewardship Include GE Trees?

• Stop the shift to corporate self-regulation of GMOs

• Consumers to eat new gene edited foods with no government safety checks

Briefings to Government

• Gene Edited Foods: Government oversight needed for safety and transparency

• Comments on the regulation of GM animals

• Comments on removing government safety assessments of foods derived from cloned cattle and swine

• The Need for Transparency and Government Oversight on Gene Editing for the Horticultural Sector

• Reverse New GMO Regulatory Guidance, to Ensure Safety and Transparency

• Comments on the proposed federal Sustainable Agriculture Strategy

• Comments to ECCC on Part 6 CEPA & New Substance Notification Regulations (Organisms) pre-consultation

• Comments submitted to ECCC on GM fruit fly “EntoEngine”

• Comments to the United States Department of Agriculture re: “Darling 58” GM American Chestnut

• Response to ECCC: Protect the Monarch butterfly as an endangered species