It seems that the EU governments will not welcome the Commission's proposal to allow member states to decide individually whether to grow or ban genetically modified crops. According to a Belgian EU Presidency source, several EU governments have already criticised the proposals, and last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured) attacked the plans as a first step towards dismantling the bloc's single market.
A new regulation concerning the commercial use of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, prepared under the law for biosafety, was announced in the Turkish Official Gaz...
Greenpeace activists from Italy, Austria, Germany and Hungary on Friday, July 30, quarantined illegal Genetically Engineered (GE) crops being grown in Italy. Wearing safe...
The European Commission has approved imports and use in the food industry of six varieties of GM maize. The permits, valid for 10 years - the EU states - are not to be re...

The latest sign of concern in the EU about the safety and ethics of new food technologies: the European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg on Wednesday, called for a tempo...
The first genetically modified (GM) animal for human consumption could be a salmon developed by US scientists that grows at twice the normal rate of Atlantic salmon, that...
As part of its on-going consultation with stakeholders, EFSA has announced its intention to call a meeting in September 2010 with environmental NGOs on its guidelines for...
Deadlock at the European Union on GMOs: the ministers of agriculture, meeting on June 29, failed to agree on the approval of six genetically modified (GM) maize varieties...