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2006-12-05 |

EU clashes over first "live" biotech crops

EU environment experts failed to agree on Monday on whether to authorise growing of a genetically modified (GMO) potato, their first foray into the sensitive area of "live" biotech crops in eight years, an EU official said. "It was a non-opinion and now goes to council (of EU ministers)," the official told Reuters, adding that this would most likely happen at a meeting in the first quarter of 2007. The potato, engineered by German chemicals group BASF to yield high amounts of starch, is used only for industrial processing to make items such as paper. It is not designed to be consumed by humans or animals.

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2006-12-05 |

EU clashes over first "live" biotech crops

EU environment experts failed to agree on Monday on whether to authorise growing of a genetically modified (GMO) potato, their first foray into the sensitive area of "live" biotech crops in eight years, an EU official said. "It was a non-opinion and now goes to council (of EU ministers)," the official told Reuters, adding that this would most likely happen at a meeting in the first quarter of 2007. The potato, engineered by German chemicals group BASF to yield high amounts of starch, is used only for industrial processing to make items such as paper. It is not designed to be consumed by humans or animals.

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