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2009-11-13 | permalink
France prepares voluntary ’GMO-free’ labels
France is set to create a set of voluntary ’GMO-free’ labelling schemes to help conventional agricultural producers to distinguish their produce in the market, it emerged this week. An opinion was submitted to the French government this week by the country’s new High Council for Biotechnology, arguing for labelling standards which go beyond the EU framework and allow crop and livestock producers to cover the high costs of remaining ’GMO-free’.
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2009-11-13 | permalink
France prepares voluntary ’GMO-free’ labels
France is set to create a set of voluntary ’GMO-free’ labelling schemes to help conventional agricultural producers to distinguish their produce in the market, it emerged this week. An opinion was submitted to the French government this week by the country’s new High Council for Biotechnology, arguing for labelling standards which go beyond the EU framework and allow crop and livestock producers to cover the high costs of remaining ’GMO-free’.
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