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European Commission Mulls Another 'Opt-Out' Proposal For GMO Imports

March 31, 2015 at 6:36 PM
The European Commission is considering giving individual European member states the power to ban the import of EU-approved genetically modified food and animal feed into their territory and may propose legislation along those lines when it completes a review of the EU's biotech approval procedures at the end of April. According to member state and private-sector sources, the commission is currently circulating a document internally that includes the so-called “opt-out” proposal for food and feed imports. But sources said this...


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