Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 Report: EU to End Five-Year Ban on New GM Products Mail this story to a friend | Printer friendly version UK: November 17, 2003 LONDON - The European Union will allow a genetically modified food product to go on sale next month in a move which will end the de facto five-year ban on new GM products, Britain's Observer newspaper reported yesterday. "There will be a development next month that will go some way to diffuse tension between the United States and Europe on GM food," the newspaper quoted a senior EU trade source as saying. The EU executive will take its first vote on a new GM product for five years in December when it decides whether or not to approve Bt-11 maize, marketed by Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta . A "yes" vote would please the United States, which has pressured the bloc by launching a case against the ban at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Passions run high over biotech food. European consumer opposition to GM produce, estimated at more than 70 percent, still deters many supermarkets from stocking gene-spliced foods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 In a message dated 11/17/03 6:35:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, herbvalerian writes: What is maize exactly? maize is one of the native American names from corn, yes.... it is used to differentiate between "corn" in the old world sense of barley.... here in the states, corn is always corn..its "sweet corn"..barley is always barley.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 Hi, Does this just apply to maize? What is maize exactly? Is it like sweetcorn? If you shop at the Co-op they have banned all GM products from their business. I am not sure if this means they will not sell anything containing GM in other peoples brands. I will email them to ask. Iceland supermarket has banned GM products from their own brand lines. So we can continue our personal boycotts if we shop carefully. , EBbrewpunx@c... wrote: > Report: EU to End Five-Year Ban on New GM Products > <A HREF= " http://www.planetark.org/mail_dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=22859 " >Mail this story to a friend</A> | <A HREF= " http://www.planetark.org/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=22859 " >Printer friendly version</A> > > > UK: November 17, 2003 > > > > LONDON - The European Union will allow a genetically modified food product to > go on sale next month in a move which will end the de facto five-year ban on > new GM products, Britain's Observer newspaper reported yesterday. > > > > " There will be a development next month that will go some way to diffuse > tension between the United States and Europe on GM food, " the newspaper quoted a > senior EU trade source as saying. The EU executive will take its first vote on > a new GM product for five years in December when it decides whether or not to > approve Bt-11 maize, marketed by Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta . > > A " yes " vote would please the United States, which has pressured the bloc by > launching a case against the ban at the World Trade Organization (WTO). > > Passions run high over biotech food. European consumer opposition to GM > produce, estimated at more than 70 percent, still deters many supermarkets from > stocking gene-spliced foods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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