Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Could Benefit Biotech Crops

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TIPP) being voted on today by the EU Parliament may reduce regulation on biotech crops.
Global Research News reports:

Responding to public concerns, the European Commission has fervently denied any claims that EU food safety standards, or other standards for that matter, would be lowered as a result of TTIP.
[…] Yet serious doubts have been raised about these statements. For one, a trade agreement similar to TTIP, the Canada-EU free trade agreement (CETA), explicitly mentions lifting“trade barriers” for biotech crops. And where CETA goes, TTIP is very likely to follow. Indeed, it would be surprising if this were not the case, given that the EU’s GMO rules are a burning issue for the US (see below, GM rules as ‘barriers to trade’).

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