A group of more than 50 NGOs and farming organisations once again criticised, on Tuesday 7 September, the biased approach of the European Commission, which they accuse of uncritically following the wishes of the biotech industry to deregulate new GMO food products, in defiance of the precautionary principle and environmental and consumer protection standards.
At issue is the Commission’s Health Services’ April study on new genomic techniques, which calls for a simplification of the EU...