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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