July 6, 2009
France rejects report by EU food agency on GM corn
France Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that declared a genetically modified strain of corn, banned in six EU countries, to be safe for health and the environment.
In a joint statement, the French Ecology and Agriculture ministries said the European Food Safety Authority had failed to take into account requests from dissenting countries on how the risk should be evaluated.
