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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8731

22 June 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 42
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
GMOs have polluted debate on organic farming

Brussels, 21/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have polluted the debate between the Council of Ministers of the EU with regard to the action plan recently presented by the European Commission to relaunch organic farming. On Monday in Luxembourg, many Member States opposed the idea of Commissioner Franz Fischler, for tolerance levels for accidental traces of GMOs in products used in organic farming to be themselves general labelling thresholds (0.9%). Italian...

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