Italy Approves Biotech Field Trials
December 19, 2008| |
According to a US Department of Agriculture GAIN report, Italy has approved the resumption of GM crop field trials after a ten-year ban. The country’s State-Regions Conference, a special body of representatives from the federal government and each of the 20 Italian regions, approved biotech field test protocols for nine crops, including kiwi, strawberry, corn, eggplant, olive, tomato, and grapes. The decree, however, leaves it up to each region to develop implementing regulations, including the authority to adopt even more restrictive measures than the original protocols in order “to reduce the risk of contamination.” Numerous regions in the country have declared themselves as GMO-free, but northern Italian regions of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna appear open to the biotech trials.
Download the report at http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200812/146306725.pdf
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