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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9144
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/gmo

Commission authorises genetically modified maize 1507 for human food

Brussels, 03/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 3 March, the Commission decided off its own bat to authorise the marketing of genetically modified maize 1507 to be used as a legal food ingredient or food or by-product such as oil and starch. Once again, it was the inability of Member States on 20 December to reach the qualified majority required to approve rejection of this authorisation for the modified maize, which allowed the Commission to take its decision in line with comitology rules in...

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