The European Union's executive has delayed a decision on allowing farmers to grow more genetically modified crops.
The European Commission sent applications to grow three modified crops back to the EU food safety regulator for further scientific analysis. The delay for two strains of genetically modified maize and one of potato comes amid mounting pressure from the United States, Argentina and Canada for Europe to open up to GM crops. These countries won a trade dispute in 2003 over the EU biotech policy. The German spy chief under fire ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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