They are 'effectively' banned in Europe though. As you can see from this infographic[1] approval of a GMO requires a political vote in the European Commission. This takes place after a very expensive risk assessment, and you can't get that money back. It's a tough business case to spend a ton of money on the risk assessment and then be at the whim of politicians who are publicly against the technology and know they win votes by being against it. My company makes GMO plants and until the situation changes there's no way we'd considered trying to get approval.
I conjecture they setup this system because an outright ban, which would be unscientific, would violate international trade treaties, instead they just use this process.
There quite a number specifically approved, which is inconsistent with an "effective" ban.
My company makes GMO plants and until the situation changes there's no way we'd considered trying to get approval.
Demonstrably -- that is, from the list of products that are approved -- that's not true of the major players in the industry (e.g., Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Syngenta) and even some smaller players.
Your company not having the resources to compete in a given market doesn't mean that that market has banned GMOs.
Those 2013 articles are outdated, Monsanto had a number of permitted approved this year. They either never withdrew their pending applications as those articles stated they intended to, or they got new applications approved in less than two years start to finish.
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No, they aren't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_genetically_modi...
They are 'effectively' banned in Europe though. As you can see from this infographic[1] approval of a GMO requires a political vote in the European Commission. This takes place after a very expensive risk assessment, and you can't get that money back. It's a tough business case to spend a ton of money on the risk assessment and then be at the whim of politicians who are publicly against the technology and know they win votes by being against it. My company makes GMO plants and until the situation changes there's no way we'd considered trying to get approval.
I conjecture they setup this system because an outright ban, which would be unscientific, would violate international trade treaties, instead they just use this process.
[1] http://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/docs/decision_making_process....
There quite a number specifically approved, which is inconsistent with an "effective" ban.
Demonstrably -- that is, from the list of products that are approved -- that's not true of the major players in the industry (e.g., Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Syngenta) and even some smaller players.
Your company not having the resources to compete in a given market doesn't mean that that market has banned GMOs.
Even Monsanto is giving up: http://www.euronews.com/2013/07/18/monsanto-re-thinks-its-gm...
http://www.gmeducation.org/government-and-corporations/p2134...
Those 2013 articles are outdated, Monsanto had a number of permitted approved this year. They either never withdrew their pending applications as those articles stated they intended to, or they got new applications approved in less than two years start to finish.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-4843_en.htm
These aren't approvals to grow the crops in the EU, which is the core issue, they are approvals to import products grown elsewhere.