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Govt says no to field trials of GM crops

December 8, 2014 ofai

Syed Khalique Ahmed December 6, 2014

Even as the country’s biotech regulatory authority — Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) — has given its approval for experimental field trials of 12 Genetically Modified (GM) crops for generating biosafety data, the  Gujarat government has decided not to give permission to biotech companies to carry out field trials of any GM food crops.

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