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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10447
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) cjeu

Sales of honey containing traces of GMO under fire

Brussels, 07/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - A blow for Monsanto and the policy of the coexistence of GM and conventional/organic crops within the EU. Honey which is contaminated, even by a tiny quantity, with pollen from a genetically modified variety of maize cannot be sold in the EU without prior authorisation, according to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). It took position to this effect in a ruling dated 6 September (case C-442/09) over a dispute between the State of Bavaria (Germany)...

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