http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LE218443.htm
BERLIN/HAMBURG, April 14 (Reuters) - Germany will ban cultivation and
sale of genetically modified (GMO) maize despite European Union
rulings that the biotech grain is safe, its government said on Tuesday.
The ban affects U.S. biotech company Monsanto's <MON.N> MON 810 maize
which may no longer be sown for this summer's harvest, German
Agriculture and Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner told a news
conference.
The move puts Germany alongside France, Austria, Hungary, Greece and
Luxembourg which have banned MON 810 maize despite its approval by the
EU for commercial use throughout the bloc.
"I have come to the conclusion that there is a justifiable reason to
believe that genetically modified maize of the type MON 810 presents a
danger to the environment," Aigner said, stressing the five other EU
states have taken the same action.
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