GM corn crop to be approved

One variety of genetically-modified corn will be approved by the EU next week ending a six-year moratorium on new biotech crops that the United States has challenged at the World Trade Organisation.

European Commission spokesman Reijo Kemppinen said Swiss-based Syngenta company’s application to sell Bt11 sweet corn for human consumption would be approved at the commission’s meeting on Wednesday, after member governments repeatedly deadlocked on it.