VIENNA (AFP)--Austria said Tuesday it planned to ban the cultivation of genetically-modified potatoes after it was approved by the European Commission in Brussels.
"Minister Alois Stoeger is preparing a document banning the cultivation of genetically-modified potatoes," a health ministry spokeswoman told AFP.
The minister was going to "immediately issue a national cultivation ban," according to the ministry.
The commission approved Tuesday the cultivation of genetically-modified potatoes--the first approval of GM foods for 12 years--as environmentalists and some European ministers slammed the "frankenfoods" as a threat to human health.
Austria already introduced a safeguard clause in 1999 banning the import of two types of genetically-modified maize, also approved by the commission:Monsanto's MON810 maize and Bayer's T25.
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