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Worlds collide on science of public health

I had just returned from an exhilarating, intellectually stimulating week in Mexico City when the news broke that the United States government had escalated its challenge to Mexico’s restrictions on genetically modified (GM) corn to the level of a formal dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA).

IATP comments to the Council on Environmental Quality on the "National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions"

To read the full comment, please download a PDF of the comment.  Dear Chair Mallory:

Letter on the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Regulation of the Movement of GE Animals

Download a PDF of the letter sent to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on May 7, 2021. 

US and Canadian Groups Call for Ban on Face Masks Containing Toxic Nanomaterials

MINNEAPOLIS—Today, leading environmental and human health advocacy groups from the United States and Canada provided detailed evidence about face masks containing potentially toxic nanoscale materials in a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (

Engineered nanomaterials in masks claimed as protection against COVID-19

To read the full letter to the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency and U.S.

Groups Urge Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Stay with FDA not USDA

Download a PDF of the press release.

Campesino, Social, Academic and Research Organizations Warn Against Pressures from Agricultural Associations in the United States that Affect Our Sovereignty

Read the original statement in Spanish. 

Detener la carrera al barranco en la política comercial

Publicado en The American Prospect, 15 de marzo de 2021.   

Stopping the race to the bottom in trade policy

The following op-ed was published originally on The American Prospect. Republished with permission below. 

IATP joins allies to request a meeting of the FAO director-general with civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations

Yesterday, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) joined Pesticide Action Network International (PAN International), civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations in sending a formal request to meet with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Qu Dongyu.