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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9292
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food safety

EU steps up controls on imports of American rice

Brussels, 23/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Monday evening, the EU was poised to strengthen its control procedures on American long grain rice in order to prevent batches of rice containing banned GMOs from entering the Community market again. At the time of going to press, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health was looking at the proposal aimed at compelling Member State control authorities to carry out counter-testing to verify the reliability of American tests and thus...

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