09/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Green/EFA group has welcomed the decision of the EU committee on food safety to reject the marketing of a type of genetically modified sweetcorn Bt11 (EUROPE yesterday p 11). Co-president Monica Frassoni saw this as a victory for consumer protection and considered that the precautionary principle should be applied to this sweetcorn, which is able to produce its own insecticide and is resistant to herbicides. Her colleague, Paul Lannoye from Belgian said that...