ASHOK B SHARMA | www.financialexpress.com
The WTO dispute settlement body’s (DSB) final verdict on Europe’s de facto moratorium on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and food comes at a time when India is busy finalising its labeling norms on GMOs.
The nature of the verdict suggests that it has more of political implications, rather than scientific, on countries enforcing norms and regulations on GMOs. The panel had given its interim verdict in February this year. The verdict was conveyed to the concerned parties, and was not made public. Similar is the case with the final verdict which was, however,leaked out to the media last week.
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