EU Continues to Approve GMOs Amidst Debate on National GMO Bans
October 1, 2010| |
European Union (EU) Health Commissioner John Dalli has declared that the European Commission will continue to approve GM crops amidst the current debate on national GMO bans. He said that the Commission's proposals will permit France and others to pursue their existing "safeguard" bans on adoption of GM crops, in the same way that pro-GMO countries such as Spain and Portugal could move forward in increasing their commercial GMO acreage. Dalli will accept revisions in the proposals if "that would win the majority support of EU governments and lawmakers, needed for the plans to become law." Dalli also confirmed that in weeks time, the Commission will propose a technical solution to the EU's zero tolerance policy on traces of unapproved GMOs in animal feed imports to EU. "For food, the zero tolerance rule will remain in place as far as raw materials for food production go," Dalli stressed.
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