Skip to main content

Genetically Modified Crops

Volume 328: debated on Wednesday 24 March 1999

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make it his policy to require segregation of genetically modified crops from other crops imported into the United Kingdom under the WTO rules relating to the right to protect human health and the application of the precautionary principle.[78255]

All genetically modified (GM) crops which are permitted to be imported into the UK have been approved following a rigorous assessment of their safety. It is therefore not possible to require segregation under WTO rules.