A report commissioned by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, published on 29 September, reveals the hidden interests of certain lobbies working in the field of new genomic techniques (NGTs).
The survey shows that a number of organisations in favour of the deregulation of new genome editing techniques have direct links with the seed industry (including Bayer and Corteva). A ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU in 2018 had judged that GMOs obtained through mutagenesis or...