03.06.2003 |

USA: No Deal on Biotech Food

Industry, Opponents Fail to Agree on Recommendation for RegulationAn elaborate, secretive effort in Washington over the past two years to negotiate a truce between the agricultural biotechnology industry and its critics has ended in failure, with the parties unable to agree on a plan to strengthen biotech regulations in this country. One important reason: The US administrations WTO case against the European Union.</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55678-2003May29.html">Article in the Washington Post</a></p><p><a href="http://pewagbiotech.org/consensus/FinalReport.pdf">Final report of the stakeholder forum, PEW</a>