2024-02-07 | permalink

More misery for farmers as EU Parliament endorses draft law to deregulate GMOs

Brussels – The European Parliament (EP) has endorsed a controversial European Commission plan that exempts many new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from current safety rules, ignoring critical science, and farmer and consumer rights, warned Greenpeace.

The Commission plan would scrap most safety checks requirements for a new brand of genetically modified plants, produced with so-called new genomic techniques (NGTs).

• Greenpeace European Unit: More misery for farmers as EU Parliament endorses draft law to deregulate GMOs