“GMO” maize and public health – A case of Schumpeterian policy vs. free market in the EU

EU lawmakers have long refused the cultivation of “Genetically Modified Organisms”. An example of this struggle is the revision of the accepted level of contaminants in maize: rather than admitting that Bt maize is safer than “non-GMO” varieties, and therefore European farmers should be allowed not...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giovanni Tagliabue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2017-04-01
Series:Bio-based and Applied Economics
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3302