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Open letter to the EC: Strengthen EU GMO policy to achieve EU Green Deal objectives

Brussels, September 17, 2020

The European Coordination Via Campesina is among the 88 civil society and farmers organisations from across Europe that today are demanding to the EU health and food safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides to keep new GMOs regulated, in an open letter available here

The controversial new generation of food genetic engineering techniques should be subject to EU safety checks and consumer labelling, according to an EU Court of Justice ruling, but our organisations complain the European Commission is not implementing this ruling.

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