Brussels, 15/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - Syngenta, the Swiss agri-chemicals cited the lack of profitability in Europe to justify the withdrawal (announced on Tuesday 13 October) of two authorisation requests for transgenic maize (MIR 604 and GA21) in the EU, where two thirds of member states are opposed to the cultivation of GMOs (see EUROPE 11410).
Questions regarding the argument invoked are therefore pertinent, given the revelations that appeared in the newspaper, Le Monde on 14 October,...