Monday, September 27, 2010

New 'compact' for GM complaints

From Weekly Times Now:

THE world's major biotechnology companies have set up a complaints process for countries with concerns over the impact of GM crops.

The six companies - BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont, Monsanto, and Syngenta - have formed "The Compact", which they claim is a "clearly defined, efficient, and fair" process for countries to file and process claims related to damage to biological diversity caused by genetically modified organisms.

Peak group CropLife International said the compact, which had been developed over the past two years, was now in force under the umbrella of an independent mediation and arbitration framework administered in The Hague.

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