The European Commission said yesterday that on Monday 23 October it will ask all European Union national food safety experts to require mandatory testing of all imports of US long-grain rice at EU ports after talks on an agreed testing regime broke down. The decision follows the detection of a herbicide resistant strain, illegal in the EU, in rice certified GM-free by the US. The mandatory testing will result in considerable extra costs to US rice exporters.
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