Center for Global Food Issues Applauds WTO-GMO Final Ruling
(PRWEB via PRWebDirect) September 30, 2006 -- On its blog this week CGFI has stated that it approves of the World Trade Organization ruling for Canada, Argentina and the United States finding that the European Union has and continues to inappropriately engage in a de facto moratorium on agricultural biotechnology.
“The Panel found that the EU member state measures are not justified by the so-called precautionary principle because the EU’s own scientific committees scientific evidence found GMO’s to be safe and had themselves approved the GMO planting applications which were then banned by local political and other special interests. The EU should quickly comply with the WTO GMO-ruling (www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Press_Releases/2006/September/US_Trade_Representative_Susan_Schwab_US_Agriculture_Secretary_Mike_Johanns_Announce_Favorable_Ruling_in_WTO_Case_on_Agri.html) which requires they bring their trade practices into compliance with the rules which the EU helped write and to which they have agreed to abide. We further support the U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Agriculture Secretary in urging the EU to immediately comply and use the same science-based merits by which they regulate all other food and agricultural products.”
The Center for Global Food Issues is a project of the Hudson Institute, a tax-exempt non-profit public policy organization, providing factual, science-based information on important food and farming issues.
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