France could follow Germany in GM corn restriction - AFP

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Source: Agence France-Presse

France could follow Germany in GM corn restriction

Fri May 25, 6:18 AM ET

PARIS (AFP) - France may follow Germany in imposing restrictions
on a strain of genetically-modified corn made by the US giant
Monsanto, Ecology Minister Alan Juppe was quoted Friday as saying.

"Germany has just suspended authorisation for MON 810 seed. In this
particular instance, we must be steered by the German case," the
newly-appointed minister told the daily Le Parisien.

"They have just discovered that the toxin which is supposed to kill
the corn pest is being secreted in ways that are not precisely
what was expected."

MON 810 is a genetically-engineered breed of corn, also called maize,
that exudes a poison to kill an insect called the European corn-borer.

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