EU agriculture ministers were almost unanimous on Monday (13 July) in expressing their scepticism about a European Commission proposal to give individual member states the power to ban the use of genetically modified (GM) ingredients in human and animal food.
Minister after minister at a meeting in Brussels criticised the commission's proposal as incomplete, impractical, or unnecessary.
“The proposal has created more questions than provided solutions”, said German deputy food and ...
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