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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8581

8 November 2003
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/gmo
Commission to submit to Monday's Standing Committee on Food a request for authorising genetically modified maize - little likelihood of a vote

Brussels, 07/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Monday, the Commission will submit to Member States meeting within the regulatory committee on the food chain, a proposal aimed at authorising the marketing within the Union of genetically modified sweet corn intended for feed and food, but not for crop growing. The meeting, which has the value of a test for the possible lifting of the de facto European moratorium on GMOs, reactivates the polemic between partisans and detractors but it is practically...

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