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Article: Swiss voters approve GMOs ban
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 28, 2005
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Swiss voters approve GMOs ban
GENEVA, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Swiss voters approved a proposal
calling for a five-year ban on the use of genetically modified
organisms (GMOs) in Swiss agriculture.
Exit polls conducted by the gfs Bern polling institute show that
55 percent of voters approving the proposal initiated by
environmentalists and consumer groups, and near-final results show
almost all the country's 26 cantons backed it, the official website
swissinfo reported.
The vote on the GMO moratorium comes after parliament passed a new
law in 2003, which allows GM crops in Switzerland ...