Serious differences between Europe and the United States

Introduction: the EU has officially passed the new regulations on genetically modified products The EU has officially passed the new regulations on genetically modified products (JCN) The Council of EU ministers of agriculture has officially passed the new regulations on genetically modified products on the 22nd According to the regulations, the EU will have the conditions to allow new genetically modified food to be sold in the EU starting next month JCN according to the new regulations, all products sold in the EU, including crops, animal feed, vegetable oil, etc., as long as the content of genetically modified substances is more than 0.9%, must be labeled with "this product is genetically modified product" In addition, all departments producing and selling genetically modified products must provide written materials to record all aspects of the product from the field to the dining table David Bain, the European Union's Consumer Health Protection Commissioner, said that EU consumers can now safely select genetically modified foods, which have undergone the world's most rigorous testing and evaluation before they go on the market JCN but the United States, a big producer of genetically modified products, believes that there is no essential breakthrough in the EU's new regulations Val Giddens, vice president of the U.S biotechnology industry organization, said that the EU's new rules on genetically modified food are to change guns without changing medicine, which is another trade barrier U.S industry sources complain that labeling genetically modified food is an indication of a health threat to the product and that the United States will have to ship as many pieces of paper as corn and soybeans to Europe Although the new regulations passed by the EU allow transgenic products to enter the EU market, the consensus is that it is still difficult to resolve the dispute between Europe and the United States JCN in the issue of genetically modified products, the EU's consistent view is that whether genetically modified products are harmless to people, livestock and the environment is not a scientific conclusion, so the EU can only strictly limit the sale of genetically modified products In response, the United States said that 300 million people in North America eat genetically modified corn and soybeans all the year round, and no adverse reactions have been found so far, and the EU's view has no scientific basis Due to the serious divergence of JCN, the United States and Europe have fought on the issue of genetically modified products for many times in the past five years In 1998, the European Union stopped approving the marketing of genetically modified products, which cost American farmers more than 200 million dollars a year In addition, the EU's genetically modified products policy has also caused a chain reaction in the rest of the world Last year, worried about the impact on agricultural exports to the European Union, African countries such as Zambia and Zimbabwe not only began to strictly restrict the cultivation of genetically modified crops, but also refused US assistance in genetically modified food This makes the United States angry JCN then, in May this year, the United States formally submitted the dispute to the WTO Special commentator Feng quanpu: "many research results show that, after strict demonstration, genetically modified food agreed to market is basically harmless In fact, if the EU opens its market to the US, the US genetically modified food will have a great impact on the already fragile agriculture in Europe The EU's decision should be said to be a concession to the United States, but such a concession, as some experts say, is to tear down a fence and erect two more brick walls at the same time So the debate between them is far from over "Economic information network" JCN