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BASF Drops Plan to Test GM Potatoes in Ireland
DUBLIN - German chemicals firm BASF has decided against planting
genetically modified potato crops in Ireland this year, the country's
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Wednesday.
Ireland, Europe's biggest per capita consumer of potatoes, gave the
go-ahead earlier this month for BASF to grow varieties of the crop
modified with improved resistance to late potato blight, which brought
famine to Ireland in the 19th century.
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