Environmental

Citizens’ Review Backs Ballot Initiative to Ban GE Crops from Jackson County, Oregon

Center for Food Safety Testifies Before Panel

OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014.  A twenty-person Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR) has concluded its review of Jackson County’s ballot initiative to ban genetically engineered (GE) crops from the county. The state-sanctioned review’s “Key Findings” concluded that farms in Jackson County are at “serious” risk of contamination by GE crops. The review also concluded that the initiative, Measure 15-119, would not incur the county significant enforcement costs.

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