Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014. France’s lower house of parliament passed a bill last week banning the cultivation of all strains of genetically engineered (GE) corn within its borders, even those strains that might not yet be approved within the European Union (EU). The law follows a decree adopted last month, which targeted the only GE crop permitted for cultivation in the EU—Monsanto’s insect-resistant MON810 corn. Back in the U.S., Vermont became the first state to pass a bill requiring the labeling of food containing GE ingredients (You can read the House bill as it was introduced here and the Senate amendments to this bill here). The bill, which the Governor said he will sign, passed by large majorities in both houses of the legislature and does not contain a trigger provision similar to laws adopted in Connecticut and Maine –with a requirement that similar action is taken in contiguous states before the law goes into effect.
