GMOs opt-out doesn’t undermine TTIP, says EU negotiator

EU and US negotiators met in New York and Washington on 20-24 April to try to advance the trade deal talks that began in summer 2013. At the closing press conference, EU chief negotiator Ignacio Garcia-Bercero told Europolitics that the 22 April European Commission proposal giving individual member states the right to ban genetically modified foods “is perfectly compatible with WTO rules”. He said “it maintains fully the role of science in the risk assessment process” and was “non-discriminatory”. But…