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In addition to France and Germany, other European countries that placed bans on the cultivation and sale of GMOs include Austria, Hungary, Greece, and Luxembourg. [52] Poland has also tried to institute a ban, with backlash from the European Commission. [53] Bulgaria effectively banned cultivation of genetically modified organisms on 18 March ...
World map of GMO agriculture (hectares) [1] The regulation of genetic engineering varies widely by country. Countries such as the United States, Canada, Lebanon and Egypt use substantial equivalence as the starting point when assessing safety, while many countries such as those in the European Union, Brazil and China authorize GMO cultivation on a case-by-case basis.
The European Commission has given countries the choice of opting out of GMOs, and a number of countries including Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, the ...
Traceability has become commonplace in the food and feed supply chains of most countries, but GMO traceability is more challenging given strict legal thresholds for unwanted mixing. Since 2001, conventional and organic food and feedstuffs can contain up to 0.9% of authorised modified material without carrying a GMO label.
Unlike in the U.S., GMOs never gained much ground in Europe, with 19 countries banning their cultivation, despite a dearth of documented effects on human health.
It was approved for use in the European Union in 1998. [27] Since then, six countries have grown it [28] (Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania [29]) and six countries (Austria, Hungary, Greece, France, Luxembourg, and Germany) have banned its cultivation (imports were still allowed) under an emergency temporary provision known as the 'Safeguard Clause' [30] due to concerns ...
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