A group of 74 NGOs sent a letter to Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan on Tuesday 5 May asking him to strengthen or at least maintain EU food safety standards for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in trade negotiations with the United States.
“We ask you do all you can [...] to prevent any weakening of existing protections under the mum of lifting ‘regulatory barriers’ to trade”, the NGOs wrote to the Commissioner.
Indeed, Washington regularly calls on the EU to change its sanitary...