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Ingredients

BASF is the world's leading chemical company. Specific for the potato industry BASF is a provider of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. BASF is developing GM potato varieties, e.g. for the potato starch industry.

BASF is also a manufacturer of various food ingredients. 

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Aardappeldemodag

Aardappeldemodag 2024

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Potato Europe 2024

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Fruit Attraction 2024

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Interpom 2024

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Manitoba Potato Production Days 2025

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Washington & Oregon Potato Conference 2025

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News for this Company

University Ghent
March 05, 2012

Nieuwe ggo aardappelproef in Wetteren, maar zonder Fortuna

In het Belgische Wetteren wordt dit jaar opnieuw een ggo-aardappelproefveld aangelegd. De Fortuna-lijn van BASF wordt echter uitgesloten. Op die manier zijn alleen wetenschappelijke instellingen betrokken bij het onderzoek. Dat is één van de voorwaarde...
Belgium
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European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
February 26, 2012

EFSA: no adverse effects of cultivation GM Amflora potato

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a scientific opinion on the Post-Market Environmental Monitoring (PMEM) report for the 2010 cultivation season of the genetically modified Amflora potato.
Belgium
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January 16, 2012

BASF moves unit to US after Europe rebuffs scientific potato

BASF SE, the maker of the Amflora scientific potato, is moving the plant-science unit that genetically modifies crops to the U.S. from Germany after European consumers resisted the technology.
Germany
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Amflora
January 16, 2012

BASF stops development of GM Potatoes

BASF announced today that it is concentrating its plant biotechnology activities on the main markets in North and South America. Development and commercialization of all products targeted solely at cultivation in the European market (potatoes!) will be...
Germany
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