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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11477

28 January 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
EFSA highlights assessing cumulated pesticide health risks breakthrough

Brussels, 27/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) has been harshly criticised for not having taken into account the combined effects of several pesticides in the risk assessment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). On Wednesday 27 January, however, it announced that progress had been made in tackling this shortfall, thanks to a software tool.

The highlighted shortcoming has been consistently criticised by the Testbiotech and GeneWatch UK NGOs and it was...

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