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Article: GMOS : INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT TO FACILITATE TRADE IN TRANSGENICS.(Codex Alimentarius Commission)(Genetically engineered foods)
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- European Report
- Article date:
- October 9, 2007
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The Codex Alimentarius member states(1) concluded in late September an agreement to facilitate trade in agricultural and agri-food products containing traces of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The agreement, negotiated in Japan, is expected to be made official next July, by which time the FAO will have put in place its cornerstone: a database grouping all authorised GMOs planet-wide and the scientific studies relating to each.
More and more importers, particularly in Europe, are discovering in their incoming goods traces of GMOs not yet authorised in their countries, but approved in the countries where they buy. It was to keep from systematically holding ...