viernes, 5 de septiembre de 2014

EU under pressure to allow GM food imports from US and Canada | Environment | theguardian.com

EU under pressure to allow GM food imports from US and Canada | Environment | theguardian.com

 

Politicians
have been trying to reassure us that public protections will not be
traded away behind closed doors in free-trade deals with the US and
Canada.

But evidence now emerging from a free trade deal with
Canada shows that EU officials are willingly negotiating an agreement
that undermines our own safety regime for GMOs and food saftey.

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 food labels


Companies are lobbying hard to remove the EU’s traceability and labelling policies for products containing GM ingredients.
Photograph: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images