24.01.2004 |

Major European NGOs send open letter to Commissioner Walstroem on seeds

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, IFOAM, Coordination Paysanne and the European Environmental Bureau sent an open letter to EU Commissioner Margot Walstroem, urging her to establish mandatory labelling of GMOs in seeds at the detection level and to look at the science behind it and listing a set of questions to the EUs Scientific Committee on GMOs. The Commissioner is about to present a new proposal regarding the purity of seeds in Europe.</p><p><a href="http://www.zs-l.de/saveourseeds/downloads/ngo_letter_to_com_22_01_04.pdf">Seed letter to EU Commission</a>