GM SEEDS DIRECTIVE
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLRULES determining when certain seeds sold by garden centres should be labelled as containing genetically modified material have been proposed by the European Commission and are being examined by the European Union's (EU) standing committee on seeds, which has the authority to approve or reject the proposal. It has been written by the Commission into directive on the issue, which says that seeds - initially for tomatoes, chicory and potatoes - containing more than 0.5 per cent of GM organisms, would have to be labelled as genetically modified. The ...
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