Decision puts human health, nature, and farmers’ rights at risk

In its final plenary session, the EU Parliament endorsed the EU Commission’s proposal to widely deregulate the new generation of GMOs – products of so-called “new genomic techniques”, or NGT.

Friends of the Earth Europe commented: “This decision positions the EU for even greater deregulation than in the United States of America. The approved legislative proposal grants corporations the right to market new GMOs without any type of safety, monitoring and liability obligations, putting human health, nature, and farmers’ rights at risk.”

Mute Schimpf, food and farming campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: “Today’s decision is a blow to food and environmental safety. It endorses a path that leaves nature, the food sector, and farmers vulnerable while bolstering profits and unchecked power for big corporations.”