NATIONAL GM BANS APPROVED BY EU MINISTERS, DEFYING EUROPEAN COMMISSION
March 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BIOTECHNOLOGY companies will look carefully at the possible impact of a European Union (EU) Council of Ministers decision today to allow member states to block production f genetically modified (GM) foods previously approved by the EU. Ministers overwhelmingly threw out the latest bid by the European Commission to force Hungary to lift its national ban on the cultivation of Monsanto's GM maize MON810 and Austria's ban on MON810 and Bayer's T25 maize. Until now, the council has been split, but now only Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands and Finland ...
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