A campaign has been launched calling for a comprehensive European Union (EU) law guaranteeing the safe co-existence of genetically modified (GM) and conventional food crops.
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Launched in Strasbourg, France, by the Assembly of European Regions and environmental group Friends of the Earth, the campaign calls for the EU to follow Germany’s example by passing a European regulation insisting upon: Biosafety measures such as separation distances between GM and non-GM crops and a public register for GM organisms; a liability scheme for when conventional and organic crops (and seeds) are contaminated by GM material; the legal right of regional governments to ban all GM crops or foodstuffs from their territories.
