BRUSSELS — The European Union has authorized the use of more genetically modified food and feed amid a row over whether EU member states should be able to independently ban certain GM products.
The EU’s executive commission said Friday that it has approved 10 GM foods, including strands of maize, soybean and cotton, after they “have been proved to be safe.” Two kinds of GM cut flowers were also authorized.
The European bio-industries association expressed satisfaction that the EU has “finally decided to authorize imports of safe products.”
The EU and its member nations have been locked in a dispute over whether countries should be allowed to individually ban GM produce that EU institutions consider safe.
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