From lobby firms to top officials, a look at how Bayer built access and secured favors from Trump's Washington.

Pacifiers—even "BPA-free" ones—can release bisphenol A, a chemical linked to hormone disruption and developmental problems, a new study shows.

Exploring a key Intelligence Community advisory session on coronaviruses, and its relevance to COVID-19 Origins, based on declassified…

The Modern Ag Alliance enables Bayer to campaign through an entity that looks like a coalition of farm groups, not a giant chemical company.

Take action now, and tell your Minister that harmful pesticides should not stay on the market indefinitely, that independent scientific research should not be ignored, and that pesticide approvals sho...

Breast milk from mothers worldwide contains a wide range of endocrine disrupting chemicals, but breastfeeding still remains best, global study shows.

A U.S. Right To Know report finds systemic pesticide industry influence within Entomological Society of America, impacting bee research.

(Beyond Pesticides, December 16, 2022) A report released last week — Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide — exposes not only Bayer/Monsanto malfeasance in its “promotion” of its glyphosate-based herbicide products, including the notorious Roundup®, but also, the broader landscape of corporate efforts to white- or green-wash products that companies know are harmful to people and the environment. The report was issued by U.S. Right to Know (USRTK, a nonprofit investigative research group focused on promoting transparency for public health), Friends of the Earth (FOE), and Real Food Media. It carries the pithy subtitle, “A case study in disinformation, corrupted science, and manufactured doubt about glyphosate,” a description cited by the Friends of the Earth press release as “at the core of the pesticide industry’s public relations playbook.” Beyond Pesticides welcomes this report, which comports with much of our previous coverage of the pesticide industry’s egregious misbehavior, and of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide. FOE calls the report the “first comprehensive review” of the Bayer/Monsanto “defense strategy” employed in attempts to deny science, manufacture doubt, and discredit critics who have researched, reported on, and/or advocated against the company’s flagship glyphosate products because […]

Emails obtained by USRTK provide a rare window into the pesticide industry’s playbook for trying to keep neonics on the US market.

Efforts to curb the overuse of antimicrobials in farm animals are at risk after layoffs at the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine earlier this month.

A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.

Monsanto’s confidential public relations plan to discredi...

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak discussed hiding his role in a statement published last year in The Lancet that condemned as "conspiracy theories" concerns that the COVID-19 virus may have o...

The U.S. government funded the discovery of RaTG13, the closest relative of Covid-19 known before the pandemic began.

These newly unearthed emails from @USRightToKnow (huge credit to them) about NIH deliberations on funding the Wuhan lab through Peter Daszak are jaw-dropping. They show that the NIH’s gain-of-function “review committee” was an absolute joke, a club of self-important… https://t.co/ZCpZaZzkDQ pic.twitter.com/Y0x71zyXJp — Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 2, 2025 That’s about what I expected to see. […]

Pesticides banned years ago have been found in clouds above France, raising new concerns about their global health impacts, study shows.

The more unhealthy food ads young people see, the more of those products they consume—and the higher the risk of disease, a new study shows.