Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) A “significant number” of European scientists active in biotechnology research, are allegedly lobbying the EU for deregulating new gene editing techniques, it has been claimed.
This comes, it is alleged, at the same time they have “direct or indirect vested and undisclosed interests in the marketing of plants derived from those techniques via patents, patent applications or via links with the seed industry.”
The allegations are made by lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory in a report commissioned by the Greens-EFA in the European Parliament.
