Fear of a possible allergen in Starlink led to recalls of corn-based foods, from tortilla chips to corn dogs. Exports of corn plummeted and the price of corn itself fell, reports CBS News ...

The recalls have corn farmers worried about long-term effects of the StarLink scare on prices. Federal class-action lawsuits were filed on behalf of non-StarLink growers nationwide in December ...

WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest manufacturer of tortilla products Friday recalled all its tortillas, taco shells and snack chips made with yellow corn because the flour may contain an ...

The past two weeks have been full of firsts for biotech crops. For the first time ever, a food product was pulled from the market because it contained traces of a genetically engineered crop.

The company unit that created the controversial StarLink corn, Aventis CropScience, will pay farmers up to 25 cents a bushel to help steer potentially tainted corn toward approved uses, such as ...

ByBridgeNews A variety of StarLink biotech corn that prompted nationwide recalls of food products last fall has shown up in another product, Kellogg's-made veggie corn dogs, the anti-biotech group ...

A U.S. food recall connected to StarLink genetically altered corn has broadened to include 1.45 million pounds of baking ingredients made by the nation's second-largest food manufacturer, the Food ...

AMES, Iowa (AP) -- The fallout from StarLink corn four years ago continues to hurt the industry and hinder development of so-called pharma crops in Iowa, officials said.

But we know enough already to say that low levels of StarLink pose little risk to human health. By contrast, we know that traces of unapproved StarLink pose a major risk to farmers’ markets and food ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Two biotechnology companies agreed to pay a combined $110 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by disgruntled corn farmers over the StarLink fiasco, lawyers said ...

WASHINGTON -- A nationwide recall of taco shells and other corn products because they contain an unapproved variety of biotech grain has reached stores and restaurants across the country ...

Safeway Inc., the nation's third-biggest supermarket chain, is voluntarily recalling its house brand of taco shells because an antibiotechnology coalition charged that some shells in a suburban ...