Researchers, farmers and agricultural companies should now also be able to enter the biotech business on a large scale in Europe.
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Brussels, Dusseldorf The EU is about to break a taboo. The Brussels Commission wants to make the use of genetic engineering in agriculture much easier. The draft law has been submitted to the Handelsblatt and is to be announced on Wednesday. Food based on genetically modified plants could thus be sold more easily and without labeling in the EU in the future.
For decades, European countries, including Germany, have been very careful to keep genetically modified crops out of their fields. Now researchers, farmers and agricultural companies like Bayer should also be able to enter the biotech business in Europe, which is already established in the USA and Japan and is to be largely released in China.
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