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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9174

19 April 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/gmo
Environmentalists call for GMO authorisation to be suspended until proposals for improving risk assessment are implemented

Brussels, 18/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - Although environmentalists hailed the measures proposed by the European Commission to improve risk assessment and to make GMO (genetically modified organisms) authorisation decisions more transparent within the EU (EUROPE 9173), all urge the Commission to go further still. They call for authorisation to be suspended until the new approach recommended by the Commission has been implemented to enlarge and consolidate the scientific base of opinions issued...

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