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Turkey Bans Imports of Biotech Food Products
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 9:39 AM EST
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Turkey, the 27th largest export market for all U.S. goods, issued a new regulation placing additional requirements on all food and feed products containing genetically enhanced components. This new regulation essentially came without warning, according to U.S. Grains Council Regional Director in the Middle East and Subcontinent Joe O'Brien.
"This ban came at us pretty much out of the blue," he said. "This regulation impacts everything from a bag of potato chips to grains and co-products." The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) reported on its Web site that this signifies approval of the fourth draft of a National Biosafety Law and is similar in nature to the draft reviewed last year.
O'Brien said the potential impact is substantial to U.S. coarse grains and producers. For example, Turkey is the largest buyer of U.S. corn gluten feed (GCF) and the third-largest buyer of U.S. distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS).
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Just as Congress supports the most powerful corporate interests in a disastrous banking system, where failure of the greatest abusers garners taxpayer funds, to breathe life into an unsustainable business, we see the biotech foods rejected by consumers worldwide and Washington keeps subsidizing and supporting the unwanted biotech crops, which ensures the ultimate collapse will create carnage!
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#1 - Tue Nov 3, 2009 9:44 AM EST{"commentId":10450800,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}
Woohoo!
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#2 - Tue Nov 3, 2009 3:00 PM EST{"commentId":10461776,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
You know I thought of you the instant I read the headline Dennis; it's wonderful. Turkey Go Brah!
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