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EU Food Safety Not Compromised With Banned GM Maize
A four-year research project funded by the European Commission, the so-called Co-Extra report, declared early this month that genetically-engineered crops and conventional crops would have to be grown in segregated areas to meet environmental concerns about transgenic farming in Europe.
Given that fields in Europe are relatively small, and winds can spread pollen from transgenic crops over large distances, co-existence of novel and traditional crops will only be possible if they are grown in "dedicated zones", it said.
Genetically-modified crops have a gene, or genes, inserted into them in the lab so that they acquire traits that are useful to farmers.
They are widely grown in North America, South America and China.
But in Europe they have run into fierce resistance, led by green groups who say the crops carry risk through cross-pollination, potentially creating "super-weeds" that are impervious to herbicides.
Only a handful of genetically modified crop have been approved for cultivation in the European Union, but of them only the controversial MON810 maize strain is so far being grown, according to the European Commission.
It was approved back in 1998.
When EU environment ministers in March refused to force countries to lift their ban on MON810 only Britain, Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden supported the EU executive's bid.
A source close to the European Commission told AFP at the time of the German ban that it might bring a revision of the European legislation on GM crops.
Source-AFP
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