SECTORAL POLICIES / Gmo

Imports of new generation GMOs are not tested by 28 Member States due to lack of a European test method, warns FoEE

Brussels, 19/07/2019 (Agence Europe)

North American soybeans and rapeseed containing GMOs not authorised in Europe could enter the EU because, in the absence of European testing protocols , EU governments are currently unable to test imports of a new generation of genetically modified food and animal feed (called GMO 2.0), warned the NGO Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE)on Friday 19 July.

This warning, issued the day after the EU-Canada summit, is based on documents obtained by the Friends of the Earth Europe and Corporate...