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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11876

5 October 2017
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Gmo
Parliament objects to import of two soybeans resistant to pesticide mixtures
Brussels, 04/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

For reasons of public health and environmental protection, the European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg on Wednesday 4 October, vetoed the import into the EU of two varieties of transgenic soybean and products containing or produced from these GMOs intended for food or feed and treated with mixtures of pesticides, including glyphosate.

Under consideration were hybrid soybean FG72 x A5547-127, which is resistant to isoxaflutole-, glyphosate- and glufosinate ammonium-based herbicides, and...

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