Biotech Values

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BASF withdraws genetically-modified Amflora potato from Europe for lack of demand:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/business/global/17iht-gmo17.html

Amflora is not a food source, but rather an industrial crop for use in such products as glossy paper and concrete. Opponents argued that the potato should be banned because it could conceivably cross-pollinate with food potatoes, however unlikely that may be, but the product was approved by the EU Commission in Apr 2010 (#msg-48575063).

The only GM crops approved for growing in the EU that are still on the market are three varieties of corn sold by Monsanto (#msg-47335698). European countries do, however, import grain from GM crops grown in the US, Brazil, and Argentina.