GM APPROVAL
November 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is inching towards breaking its de facto ban on approving new genetically modified foodstuffs, with its standing committee on the food chain and animal health discussing whether to approve the sale of a GM sweet corn (Bt-11), which is manufactured by Swiss company Syngenta to produces its own insecticide.
THE EUROPEAN Union is inching towards breaking its de facto ban on approving new genetically modified foodstuffs, with its standing committee on the food chain and animal health discussing whether to approve the sale of a GM sweet corn (Bt-11), which is manufactured by Swiss company Syngenta to produces its own insecticide.
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