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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11781

5 May 2017
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Gmos
MEPs oppose authorisation of transgenic based maize and cotton products
Brussels, 04/05/2017 (Agence Europe)

The European Commission project for authorising GMO’s is taking on another guise. For reasons relating to public health protection and the environment, on Thursday 4 May in Brussels, members of the European Parliament’s environment committee vetoed the authorisation to import products containing GMOs that resist certain herbicides.

On the question of products containing the DAS-40278-9 maize resistant to the herbicide 2. D, the rejection was adopted by 35 votes (with 19 against). MEPs...

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