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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8229

10 June 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/environment
Scheele and Trakatelis reports call for labelling and traceability rules for genetically modified foods allowing coexistence of GMO and non-GMO foodstuffs

Brussels, 10/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Committee on the Environment took a stance last week in favour of rules for labelling food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or GMO-derived products. These rules would be far stricter than envisaged by the Commission in its proposals of July 2001 relating to the traceability and labelling of such products, whether destined for animal or human food (the plenary vote will be held in July).

With the adoption last...

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