GMO CORN: FRANCE REJECTS REPORT BY EU FOOD AGENCY

France and five other EU members - - Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg - - have suspended sowing of Monsanto's MON810 maize, invoking safeguard clauses on the grounds of potential environmental hazard.

In a joint statement, the French ecology and agriculture ministries saidthe European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) had failed to take into accountrequests from dissenting countries on how the risk should be evaluated.

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