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2007-06-20 | permalink
Brazil judge bans Bayer CropScience’s transgenic corn
A federal judge banned the use of Bayer CropScience Ltd.’s transgenic corn just a month after federal biosafety agents approved the product for retail sale, business daily Valor Economico reported Tuesday. Federal judge Pepita Durski Mazini of the environmental law department in the court’s Parana capital city office in Curitiba also blocked the official biosafety agency, CTNBio, from approving transgenic corn in its meeting scheduled for this week.
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2007-06-20 | permalink
Brazil judge bans Bayer CropScience’s transgenic corn
A federal judge banned the use of Bayer CropScience Ltd.’s transgenic corn just a month after federal biosafety agents approved the product for retail sale, business daily Valor Economico reported Tuesday. Federal judge Pepita Durski Mazini of the environmental law department in the court’s Parana capital city office in Curitiba also blocked the official biosafety agency, CTNBio, from approving transgenic corn in its meeting scheduled for this week.
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