COMMISSION ASKS EFSA TO HELP IT DECIDE FATE OF GM CROPS
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked the scientists of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to help it decide whether genetically modified crops should be grown in the European Union (EU). It is a controversial topic, and the EU has routinely blocked all such market approval applications for the past 10 years on environmental grounds. But now, faced with the need under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rulings that such decisions be based on science, there could be a possibility that some long standing applications be approved. EFSA will consider ...
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