European Parliamentarians are urging the European Commission to draw up legislation that would establish the legal liability of GM food producers for contamination of products by non-biotech manufacturers and growers.
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Such legislation, said the parliament’s agriculture committee, should also create rules telling GM companies to secure “insurance in respect of possible financial damage in connection with coexistence” with non-GM producers.
It also recommended that GM product approval procedures should insist that a company could only sell genetically modified foodstuffs if it had sufficient insurance coverage to meet possible compensation claims. These could arise from the contamination of non-GM plants via pollen or a failure to label GM ingredients that subsequently ended up in the food chain.
