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Member states split on GM maize approval

by Sharon Spiteri, Brussels,

EU environment ministers failed on Monday (28 June) to reach an agreement on whether to authorise the import and processing of a genetically modified maize in the EU.

It now falls to the European Commission to take the final decision.

Nine EU countries - Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg - voted against the Commission’s proposal to authorise biotech giant Monsanto’s genetically modified maize NK603.

The maize has been modified...

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