EU faces deadline on GM food ban
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The World Trade Organization could impose trade sanctions because of restrictions on GM crop imports.
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European Union environment ministers rejected an appeal Monday to force Austria to lift a ban on two biotech crop products, which the European Commission says violates international trade rules.
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The European Commission is urged to relax rules on using animal carcasses in farm feed.
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The US urges the European Union to speed up its process for approving new genetically modified (GM) products.
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The French government on Saturday suspended the use of genetically modified corn crops in France while it awaits EU approval for a full ban.
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The European Union has authorized  imports of four genetically modified (GMO) crop products for  sale across its 27 national markets for the next 10 years, the  European Commission said on Wednesday.
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Products claiming to be superfoods will be banned under new EU rules coming into effect on 1 July.
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Concerns about the safety of meat and milk from cloned animals prompt the EU to promise to consult consumers.
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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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Two shipments of U.S. rice held in the  Netherlands and Belgium have tested positive for a strain of  unauthorized genetically modified (GMO) rice, the European  Commission said on Thursday.
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The E.U.âs decision to ban Brazilian beef imports is âunjustifiable and arbitraryâ and could result in shortages and higher prices for European consumers, officials and agricultural specialists say.
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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 EU request to bring scientists into the debate, officials said Thursday.
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The European Union sought on Wednesday to boost tight cereals supplies with a proposal to suspend import duties and freeze a requirement for farmers to keep land fallow.
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The European Union said Wednesday it had extended a ban on imports of chicken meat and pet birds from several Asian countries hit by avian flu to March 31 next year.
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Monsanto Co., Syngenta AG and Bayer AG failed to win wider access to the European Union&#39;s biotechnology market when a demand that five nations lift bans on some gene-modified foods allowed elsewhere in the EU was blocked.
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Several influential EU states have dug  in their heels on whether their farmers may grow one of  Europe&#39;s oldest genetically modified (GMO) crops, raising the  stakes in the EU&#39;s long-running stalemate over biotech policy.
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A conference on genetically-modified crops opens in Germany with calls for Europe to take up GM foods.