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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9405
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

Commission strengthens biotechnology development strategy

Brussels, 12/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - In a report on the mid-term review on life sciences, the European Commission says that there are many applications for modern biotechnology in primary production and agro-food and that it has “sizable economic, environmental and public health significance” (see EUROPE 9404). Modern biotechnology is used mainly in the input sectors, i.e. breeding, diagnostics, fine chemicals (feed additives) and enzyme production.

Overall, modern technology is used...

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