GM Poplar Research At a Peril
January 9, 2009| |
Belgium’s Council for State, the highest judicial court, has suspended the refusal of some federal ministers to allow field trials for genetically modified poplars being conducted by the VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology). VIB requested a permit for a field trial but this request was denied. Poplars possess a modified wood composition, which makes them more suitable for the production of bio-ethanol.
The Council of State said that the refusal of the filed tests “can endanger the further financing and even existence of VIB”, that the investment in ten years of top research “threatens to become nullified”, and that the refusal of the field test can have negative consequences for the Belgian biotech-sector and for the investments in that sector.”
Know more about the suspension case at http://www.vib.be/VIB/EN/News+and+press/Press+releases/
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