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France takes tough position on GE crops based on flawed study
Paris, France
October 25, 2012
USDA/FAS GAIN report FR 9122
Report Highlights:
The toxicological impact on rats fed on herbicide-tolerant bioengineered corn study released a month ago has generated huge media coverage (at least eighty articles in the general press) and scientific outcry. Further, official European and French national agencies (including the European Food Safety Agency, France’s Food Safety Agency, and the High Council on Biotechnology) have dismissed the study as inconclusive and flawed. The Government of France, however, based on the study, is asking to change and make stricter the European Union’s health assessment of bioengineered products.
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Website: http://www.fas.usda.gov/ Published: November 1, 2012 |
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