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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8318

14 October 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture council
Most Member States prefer centralised procedure for authorising genetically modified foodstuffs - Positions differ over thresholds and labelling of GMOs

Luxembourg, 14/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - Monday's Agriculture Council held a policy debate on the subject of the proposal of regulation (dating back to July 2001) on food containing genetically modified organisms intended for human consumption and for animal feed. Discussion was based on a discussion paper from the Danish Presidency on three aspects: (1) the choice of authorisation procedure; - (2) the accidental presence of GMOs whose risk has been assessed but which have not received...

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