BASF

The GM food controversy looks likely to re-ignite in the coming months, as the European Union is poised to give the green light to commercial cultivation of a genetically modified potato. BASF is expected to begin commercial growing of Amflora, their G...

BASF, the world's largest chemical maker, is weeks away from challenging European resistance to genetically modified plants with a potato that it hopes will reap profit and produce share gains along with other bioengineered crops. The BASF Amflora pota...

EU states on Wednesday failed to reach agreement on whether to authorise a new genetically modified potato. Since July, the biotech industry has been awaiting an EU decision on an application by German chemicals giant BASF to approve the genetically mo...

Een genetisch gemodificeerde aardappel verdeelt de EU-Commissie. Stavros Dimas, verantwoordelijk voor milieu, en voorzitter José Manuel Barroso botsen over een aardappel van BASF. Dimas vraagt bijkomend onderzoek vooraleer de aardappel geteeld, opgesl...