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All bulk shipments of GM crops are to be labelled

February 27, 2004

Europe - Environmental activists are claiming victory over the United States as more than 100 countries agree to rules on the export of genetically modified (GM) products.

Signatories to the UN's Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which came into force last September, decided at a conference on a "rigorous system" for handling, transporting, packaging and identifying GM crops, food and other exports.

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