The European Union will allow new genetically modified food products to be sold in the next six months, in a move that effectively ends a five-year de facto ban on the marketing of new genetically modified food products. This is what the British Observer newspaper reported on Sunday morning.
This is one of the measures designed to reduce the tension between the US and the European Union regarding genetically modified foods. The newspaper quoted a senior source in Europe dealing with trade.
European Union officials will vote for the first time on the approval of these new products in December and then decide whether or not to approve the marketing of genetically modified corn developed by the Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta.
A vote in favor of the decision will please the USA, which is pressing for the cancellation of the boycott in the institutions of the World Trade Organization.
Customers in Europe who oppose genetically modified products are estimated at about 70 percent of the public, and this may prevent many supermarkets from keeping such products in stock.
