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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/gmo

Non-authorised US genetically modified maize discovered in EU

Brussels, 30/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - The environmental organisation, Greenpeace, announced on Monday 30 April that it had discovered traces of a non-authorised genetically modified maize in the EU that was contained in a US cargo unloaded in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. According to tests carried out by Greenpeace, the cargoes contained up to 2.4% in genetically modified maize (Herculex(r), developed by the US Dow AgroSciences LLC and Pioneer companies.

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