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Article: You should know.(Food Safety - Laws and Regulations)
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- The Food Institute Report
- Article date:
- May 2, 2005
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.... EU food safety experts failed to agree on authorizing imports of a genetically modified maize by Monsanto known as GA21, revealing their deadlock over biotech foods for the 10th time in a row, reported MSNBC.com. The lack of a decision on approving imports of the maize means the matter passes to ministers, who will have three months to debate the proposal, presented by the Commission--the European Union's executive arm.
.... The European Union's head office asked five EU governments to lift bans on a range of biotech crops that have been cleared by the block's food safety agency. The European Commission called on Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, France and ...