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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12346

11 October 2019
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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Gmo
European Parliament opposes authorisation to import 2 glyphosate/glufosinate resistant maize and one transgenic soybean
Brussels, 10/10/2019 (Agence Europe)

By a two-thirds majority, the European Parliament opposed, on Thursday 10 October in Strasbourg, the Commission's plans to authorise the import into the EU of maize varieties resistant to glyphosate and/or glufosinate herbicides and a transgenic soybean for human or animal consumption purposes.

These objections were mainly motivated by reasons of public health and environmental protection.

Parliament's opposition concerns both GMOs and foodstuffs containing them, namely MZHG0JG maize...

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