US pressure to force EU to change GM clause

Introduction: senior U.S officials are pressing the European Union to give up the latest strict regulations on foods containing genetically modified (GMO) ingredients, which will cost the United States $4 billion a year to implement specific measures such as genetically modified labeling This is reported by the Washington Post on Sunday The newspaper quoted U.S Deputy Secretary of state Alan Larson as saying that the European Union's provisions on the marking and tracking of genetically modified food published last month were "trade-related interference and trade-related discrimination." Allen Larson said the specific provisions of the GM regulations, such as the requirement that American soybean oil be labeled, were not included in the EU cheese and wine made by biochemical enzymes, which was obviously unfair "At present, there are still concerns about how the WTO will build a transgenic framework." Larson said This concern is mainly about the world trade organization, the global trade regulatory system Larson said he had foretold concerns in the United States that "everyone has to pass this threshold, and every trade minister, agriculture minister and economy minister from the European Union has to face this problem." U.S Agriculture Secretary General Ann weinerman and U.S trade representative Chris also expressed the same view The U.S is trying to lobby the EU government to make changes before its genetically modified terms come into effect Larson said the two sides need to resolve the matter as soon as possible so that the new round of Global trade negotiations scheduled later this year will not be affected The United States is the originator of genetically modified crops in the world In the United States, genetically modified crops are far more accepted by the public than in the European Union In the European Union, due to mad cow disease and other health crises, the public has further concerns about food safety "What we see is a unilateral interpretation by the United States." The Washington Post quoted Tony van der haegen, the EU representative in Washington, as saying that was what he mentioned when talking about pressure from the US side At the same time, he said, "there is a fundamental difference between the psychology of consumers in the United States and that of consumers in the European Union - genetically modified products are unacceptable to the public in the European Union." (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: