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EU Food Safety Not Compromised With Banned GM Maize

by Tanya on July 02, 2009 at 10:38 AM General Health News

The European Food Safety Authority declared on Tuesday that a banned strain of genetically modified maize poses no risk to health or the environment.

The move will once again pit the European Commission, which supports use of the maize, against the member states, most of whom do not.

EU Food Safety Not Compromised With Banned GM Maize

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The Monsanto MON810 maize "is as safe as its conventional counterpart with respect to potential effects on human and animal health", the independent risk assessor said after studying the strain.

The European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) GMO panel decided that "the molecular characterisation of the DNA insert" into the maize, which gives it its special insect-repellent quality, "does not raise any safety concern, and that sufficient evidence for the stability of the genetic modification was provided".

In April, Germany became the sixth EU nation to ban the genetically-modified maize produced by the US biotech giant.

A month earlier EU nations refused to force Austria and Hungary to allow the cultivation of the GMO maize -- super resistant against insects -- defying a call from the European Commission.

France, Greece and Luxembourg have also banned cultivation of the GMO maize.

The case has upset Washington, which has warned Europe against using environmental issues as an excuse for protectionism amid disputes ranging from biotechnology to greenhouse gas emissions.

A European Commission spokeswoman said the EU executive would analyse the new findings and then make a recommendation to the 27 member states.

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