Stand by science on GMO foods, EU trade chief says
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It&#39;s time for Europe to reassess its  skepticism towards genetically modified (GMO) foods and trust  scientists who have deemed them safe -- or risk more  international lawsuits, the EU trade chief said on Thursday.
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The EU's food safety chief visits Moscow on Tuesday to try and keep Russian authorities from imposing a ban on all EU beef and other animal products as of Jan. 1.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday he was willing to resort to an EU measure to ban genetically-modified crops in France if scientific studies confirm their safety was in doubt.
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EU ministers ended 18 months of squabbling on Tuesday over new rules for organic farming and came up with a labeling system that will tell consumers exactly what they are buying on the supermarket shelves.
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BRUSSELS, Aug. 26 -- The United States will have to wait until next year to see its fight with the European Union over biotech foods resolved, as the World Trade Organization agreed to an E.U. request to bring scientists into the debate, officials said Thursday.
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EU farm ministers failed on Monday to agree whether to allow new strains of genetically modified maize and potato, amid persisting divisions over biotech products.
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The European Union approved on Wednesday the first biotech seeds for planting and sale across EU territory, angering green groups who maintain they could contaminate other crops.
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Europe&#39;s food and drink industry must  step up its fight against obesity over the next three years or  face new regulations, a spokesman for the European Union&#39;s  health chief said on Wednesday.
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The United States said Monday it has agreed with the European Union to suspend temporarily its right to impose sanctions on EU goods in a trade dispute over genetically modified organisms.
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European consumers are at risk from   unauthorized genetically modified (GMO) rice grown in China   after evidence of a strain was found in Britain, France and   Germany, two leading environment groups said on Tuesday.
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New strains of  genetically modified corn will play a key role in meeting  soaring demand as U.S thirst for ethanol fuel cuts into  supplies, a top seed company scientist said on Friday.
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Products claiming to be superfoods will be banned under new EU rules coming into effect on July 1st unless the claim can be proved.
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YORK, UK, Jun 29 (IPS) - African farmers could soon find themselves forced  out of the lucrative European market for agricultural products as  retailers and government move towards a zero tolerance policy on  chemical residues in food.
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By Katherine Griffiths in New York and Stephen Foley in London. The United States&#39; Food and Drug Administration used to be a regulator so trusted that when it waved through the introduction of genetically modified
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The area planted with genetically modified crops in Europe has grown by 77% since last year, figures show.
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UK scientists pronounced some genetically modified (GMO) crops harmless Monday but European Union experts demurred, declining to approve another new GMO product for the eighth time in a row.
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Scientist chairing panel assessing risks to children from food additives denies conflict of interest.