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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9279
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/gmo/united states

Commission to negotiate agreement with Americans on stricter sampling and testing methods for long grain rice exported to EU

Brussels, 04/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - Two weeks - that is how long the European Commission has given itself for negotiating an agreement with the United States on a joint sampling and testing protocol for American long grain rice exported to the EU in order to detect with certainty the possible presence of LL601- a GMO which is not authorised in the EU but which is illegally present on the European market. If an agreement is not reached within this time, the Commission will have no other...

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