GM maize cleared as animal feed (Europe)

[Eugene]

GM maize cleared as animal feed

Leo Cendrowicz in Brussels
Tuesday August 9, 2005
The Guardian

The European commission yesterday cleared imports of genetically
modified maize produced by the US biotechnology firm Monsanto for use
as animal feed.

The commission granted Monsanto a 10-year licence to export the maize.

This is the third GM product to be approved by the EU since the end of
its six-year moratorium in April last year, and it comes after a
tortuous authorisation process. EU governments and environmental
activists have consistently questioned the safety of the maize,
known as MON 863.

The maize was approved by the commission in spite of opposition from
more than half of the EU's 25 governments. When EU environment
ministers were asked to vote on the maize at a meeting in Luxembourg
in June, 14 opposed, four abstained, and only seven - including
Britain - backed the plans.

In September, EU health ministers will vote on whether to clear the same maize for human consumption.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,2763,1545398,00.html

[bobbieinok]

1. don't understand how EU works...approved when over half of countries

don't approve??????

[rfkrfk]

2. BushCo approves, what's not to understand?

EU seems to do what it wants.
Why would the EU limit itself?
Everybody wins.