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Ensuring Health & Safety

Ensuring Health & Safety

Find out how the plant science industry is committed to ensuring the health and safety of people, animals and the environment.

Ensuring Health & Safety

Are GM crops and pesticides tested? Are they safe?

On average, the plant science industry spends more than 11 years and $286 million U.S. to research, develop and ensure the safety of a new pesticide before it is commercialised.

Ensuring Health & Safety

I’ve heard Europe, China and Japan don’t accept GM crops. So why are they allowed to be grown and imported in Australia?

Ensuring Health & Safety

I care about my family’s health. How do I know that the food we are eating is healthy and safe?

Ensuring Health & Safety

How is plant science improving my life?

Ensuring Health & Safety

Why do we even need agricultural biotechnology or GM crops?

Ensuring Health & Safety

Why do we even need pesticides?

Ensuring Health & Safety

I’m concerned about endocrine disruptors. What can you tell me about them?

Ensuring Health & Safety

What do you mean by the best of the plant science industry?

Ensuring Health & Safety

I’ve heard about declining numbers of bees around the world and colony collapse disorder. What is causing this?