would this new resolution of the CODEX Alimentarius facilitate the desition
of the European Court with respect to GMO in Honey - Bablok case?

The GMO labeling fight at the Codex Alimentarius Commission: How big a
victory for consumers?
http://www.iatp.org/blog/201107/the-gmo-labeling-fight-at-the-codex-alimentarius-commission-how-big-a-victory-for-consum

...


These reasons and more should not overshadow the victory that consumer
organizations have won in gaining for consumers the right to know what they
are consuming. But neither should the scope of the victory be
over-estimated. The implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Treaty on Plant Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture have been stymied by U.S. diplomatic
efforts on behalf of the biotech industry, industry “seed purity”
initiatives and World Bank loan program incentives to adopt GMOs as the
platform for a “Second Green Revolution.”

If the adoption of GMO labeling is restricted to European Union member
states, which are now under huge pressure from the European Commission to
end its “zero tolerance” policy for so-called “low incidence” of GMOs in
nominally non-GMO imports, then the victory of the biotech industry will be
sweet. Consumers will have to swallow whatever agribusiness serves up in
imported commodities and food—labeling, and consumers' right to know, be
damned.



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