EU Biotech Efforts To Yield Little 'Frankenfood'

Europe is inching ever closer to lifting the 5-year-old de facto ban on the approval of new genetically modified agricultural products. However, a recent Belgian decision underscores how far Europe still is from finally embracing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. In fact, the end of the ban will simply shift the biotech battlefield in Europe from GM authorization to keeping GM products off the shelves and GM crops out of the soil. There are few signs that companies looking to cash in on a new European approval process for GM food will have much more success in the coming five years than they have in the past five.