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Germany To Allow GMO Potato Trials [1]

Germany's Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said on Monday she will allow test cultivation of a potato containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Open air trials of the GMO potato Amflora, developed by German chemicals group BASF presented no threat to public health or the environment, she said.

Publication Date: 
28/04/2009
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Environment [3], Maize [4], Potato [5], GM Crops [6], Health [7], Germany [8]
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