New GMOs Hidden From View
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Okay to the Italian line. Lollobrigida and Coldiretti: "Historical time for food sovereignty"
European Parliament's approval of new GMOs marks turning point for agriculture sector
MEPs definitively passed legislation to deregulate plants developed using genome-editing technologies on Tuesday, after rejecting amendments that would have mandated traceability and banned patents on these plants.
Badische Zeitung [Newsroom]Freiburg (ots) - (...) The EU is changing the way in which genetic engineering is used, and the use of the so-called New Genomic Techniques (NGT) will no longer be subject to risk assessment. The patenting of seeds will also be permitted. ... Continue reading here...Original content of: Badische Zeitung, news transmitted
MEPs adopted on Wednesday 17 June, without amending it, the regulation on "new genomic technologies. The "new GMOs" will therefore be deployed without traceability, labelling and evaluation, while being patentable. Their critics fear that "privatisation of the living" will take place.
The European Parliament gives its definitive approval to the future regulatory framework on new genomic techniques, in Italy also called assisted evolution techniques (Tea). The deregulation of most of the new Ogm is law and is one of the most important changes in recent decades on Community rules on genetically modified food and feed. On the one hand, it seeks to respond to the challenge of climate change and the fight against plant diseases, o…
This Wednesday, the European Parliament authorised the use of "new genomic techniques" in agriculture, an innovation that promises increased yields and better resistance to climate change but raises concerns in part of the agricultural world.
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