Biotech Updates

EU to Lift Measures Against Bt10 in US Exports

January 19, 2007

The European Union Member States agreed to lift the EU requirement for all imports of US corn gluten feed and brewers' grain, and certify the imports as free from the genetically modified organism Bt10. The Bt10 corn was only detected once in May 2005 in a US shipment to the EU and on this occasion it was stopped at the border. The last case of Bt10 detected in the United States was in early November 2005 and Syngenta, the company responsible for developing Bt10, has taken a series of measures to ensure that this GMO is no longer propagated.

Read the press release at http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEX/07/0117&format=HTML
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