Brussels, 17/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission intends to modify existing legislation on seed in order to introduce a tolerance threshold for "accidental or technically unavoidable" GMOs in traditional or organic seed.
In compliance with the opinion of the plants scientific committee, this threshold will be located in the 0.3%-0.7% band according to the kind of seed, "either a level that is necessarily lower than the 0.9% threshold established in July by the Council and...