EU MINISTERS PUSH FOR COMPREHENSIVE GM FOOD MONITORING PROGRAMME
December 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have pushed for a major overhaul of the way authorised genetically modified food products are monitored, to make sure discoveries in their environmental and health affects are noted and taken into account by regulators. Yesterday's (Dec 5) meeting of the EU Council of Ministers (environment) called on national governments to develop their own monitoring programmes, and feed information to a central point, almost certainly the European Food Safety Authority. It would "consolidate...the main findings...in a ...
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