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This week has been produced in the European Commission, the governing body central Europe, a very important vote for the future of GM food on the continent. Was at stake if approved the cultivation of two new types of maize have inserted a pesticide, such as those already grown in Spain. May seem anecdotal these decisions and debates but the biotech industry (which produces seeds and crops for our food lab) is "brewing" in supermarkets these products little by little so questioned. The Commission also decided on whether to cultivate a GM potato in Europe (in this case contains antibiotic resistance genes). The European Commission's initiative President Barroso, is forcing the debate under pressure from powerful lobbies or pressure groups-industrial-biotechnology. Political (many European politicians are betting on food waste in the European Union), with the help of certain companies, they want to deal with the final approval of GM crops and foods in the EU.
For now, this Frankensalada have to wait: Both corn and potato lab "have been sent back to the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA, for its acronym in English) which we interpret as a repudiation of this Agency "say the spokesmen for Friends of the Earth, an organization that has developed an excellent report on the pressure pro GM food companies are taking place on European politicians to push for power laboratory.

should explain that the European institution responsible for ensuring the quality and safety of what we got to the mouth of citizens, according to the rules of operation of European administration, to authorize a crop or food is limited to reviewing the reports of the company interested in marketing it. No independent analysis performed. This explains why the Authority, the Commission's request, and thanks that the current European Commissioner for the Environment does not seem to work to promote food trasngénica, has received new reports of these varieties laboratory for review (which you will not be independent).

This performance-legal, I repeat, the EFSA is identical to the EMEA, the European Medicines Agency, which also performs independent surveys when requested pharmaceutical license to market a drug in Europe. EFSA is also formed mainly by molecular biologists. Other specialists would need to judge other aspects of cultivation and marketing of GM foods, as ecologists. Friends of the Earth warns that many employees of the Authority have conflicts of interest with biotech companies. Who is ruling Europe?

This document denounces the proximity between the EU's executive body, the European Commission and the biotech lobby, led by EuropaBio. Breakfasts "working" meetings or conferences in the industry have high positions in the Commission. The presence of industry in key advisory bodies and privileged access to information also notes the disturbing closeness between lobbyists and industry the Commission.

The result is a favorable policy framework, attempts to reduce controls on GM crops and foods, the EU's firm commitment for food biotechnology and millions of euros of public funds dedicated to funding research into the industry.
EuropaBio is one of the main lobby on food and crops with genetically modified organisms in the EU, and boasts his dealings with members of the European Commission. The campaigns of the lobby of agricultural biotechnology companies are led by Bayer CropScience, DuPont / Pioneer, Monsanto and Syngenta.
EuropaBio has also pressured European politicians to ensure that biotechnology applied to agriculture has become a hot topic on the agenda of EU research with an investment of 53 billion euros from public coffers.

The European Commission is promoting these connections between public and private sectors through specific technology platform on food and crops, and biofuels and food products, in the midst of global crisis of rising prices of staple foods (including reasons for biofuel crops.)

This is the transfer of public money to private economic interests. EuropaBio is, in his own words, "the voice of industry biotechnology in Europe. " Today even stronger with the money of European citizens.