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17.05.2002 | permalink
EU suppresses GE study: GE crops add high costs, threaten organic
A secret European Union (EU) study leaked to Greenpeace states that all farmers would face high additional, in some cases unsustainable costs of production if genetically engineered (GE) crops were commercially grown on large scale in Europe. The study predicts that the situation would become particularly critical for organic farming of oilseed rape as well as for intensive production of conventional maize. It calculates additional costs between 5 and as much as 41 percent of the crop value.</p><p><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/~geneng/">Greenpeace Press-release</a></p><p><a href="http://www.zs-l.de/gmo/downloads/jrc_eu_study.pdf">Download the EU`s JRC Coexistence Study</a>