GM CROPS FIGHT TO MARKET IN EUROPE THROUGH TOUGH RED TAPE
August 1st, 2007
BY DEIRDRE MASON
FEW issues have proved as globally divisive as the ability to modify crops genetically. For years, a line has been drawn between the cautious European Union (EU) and the go-for-it United States, which has seen them at loggerheads over trading genetically modified crops.
The EU's new regulatory regime, in effect since April 2004, was intended to break the impasse, by introducing controls giving the EU enough confidence to lift a de facto market approval ban on new GM products and crops. These included a stricter monitoring and labelling regime - ...
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