Europe urged to embrace GM foods
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A conference on genetically-modified crops opens in Germany with calls for Europe to take up GM foods.
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The European Union's health chief wants to introduce tougher food labeling rules to combat the growing problem of obesity across Europe, but is facing stiff political and industrial opposition.
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Europe-wide coordination is needed to tackle cancer more effectively, a group of leading experts say.
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Asia is set to become the driving force  behind biotech crops in the next decade, despite hesitance by  China to commercialize GMO rice, a Chinese scientist and an  international body said on Monday.
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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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BRUSSELS, Feb 13 (IPS) - European consumers shunning imported food  supposedly to limit climate change should not make African  farmers a scapegoat, a Brussels conference has been told.
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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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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 European Union's health chief  wants to introduce tougher food labeling rules to combat the  growing problem of obesity across Europe, but is facing stiff  political and industrial opposition.
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The European Union approved on Wednesday the first biotech seeds for planting and sale across EU territory, flying in the face of widespread consumer resistance to genetically modified (GMO) crops and foods.
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The European Union's executive arm unveiled a drive to inject new life into Europe's auto sector -- prompting cries of alarm at privileged support for a pivotal industry.
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An environmental group accused Europe's top food safety agency on Monday of repeated bias in favor of genetically modified (GMO) foods and links with the biotech industry.
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BASF's Amflora off the menu The European Union's Council of Ministers last week delivered a serious blow to biotech companies' ambitions to roll out GM crops across the region by postponing a decision on the "commercial optimisation" of BASF's Amflora "genetically optimised potato".â¦
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The British Medical Association is to call for international action to curb advancements in the development of biological and genetic weapons.
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An environmental action group urged the European Union on Tuesday to boost testing on chemicals and halt pollution in the Baltic Sea because the fish there are so toxic.
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Crop farmers are calling for the early release of EU subsidies to help them overcome damage to their harvests.
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The European Commission is urged to lift the ban on using animal remains in farm feed.