Kevin Folta, a plant scientist and professor at the University of Florida, is suing The New York Times for defamation for its 2015 article exposing his ties to Monsanto. Folta instructed Monsanto to issue funds to the University of Florida Foundation earmarked for his work but would circumvent disclosure rules. This appears to be a commonly used loophole that allows industry ties to remain hidden from public scrutiny. US Right to Know is suing the University of Florida for failure to provide all the emails required by freedom-of-information law. 

Europe's food safety agency reportedly relied on a review that lifted language from a Monsanto report when concluding that the possible cancer-causing ingredient in the company's popular weed-killer Roundup is safe, raising concerns that the agency failed to properly analyze the pesticide's potential dangers.

The report describes the origins and growth of the Poison Cartel and the ways in which these giant agri-business companies (Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta, Chem China, Dow, Dupont, Basf) gain and keep control of their empires, among other things, in collusion with governmental agencies, as recently revealed in the Poison Papers and Monsanto Papers, undermining independent science and our democracies.

The Netherlands has proposed that new GM techniques should be specifically excluded from Europe's GMO directive.

That would mean that products developed using these techniques would not be subjected to the EU’s GMO regulations and would not be labelled as GMOs.