EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TOUGHENS ORGANICS DIRECTIVE’S GM RULE
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament's agriculture committee has taken a tough line on whether food products labelled organic can carry small traces of genetically modified material, insisting that no "products produced from or with GMOs" may be used in organic production.In non-binding amendments to a proposed European Union (EU) regulation on organic production, the parliament backed a zero-tolerance approach: even traces of GM material linked to veterinary medicine would not be allowed. Under the current proposal, foods could be sold as organic within the ...
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