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EU Clears Monsanto Biotech Corn For Feed
import after the EU's 25 member states failed to take a decision.
The EU ended a six-year moratorium on accepting applications for new genetically modified foods in May 2004, but several EU nations remain reluctant to authorize biotech crops because of public health and environmental concerns.
Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, France and Greece have outlawed three types of corn and two varieties of oilseed. The U.S. launched a World Trade Organization complaint against the EU's ban on biotech imports in 2003. A WTO panel is to release a preliminary ruling on the case this month.
Monsanto, based in St. Louis, also makes the herbicide Roundup and a variety of genetically altered seeds.
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