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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - European Union governments should work together in deciding rules for using biotech foods, rather than forge their own policies and risk inviting legal action against the 27-member bloc, the EU trade chief said Thursday.
Nations outside the European Union could interpret individually set biotech rules as unfair trade barriers, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson warned.
"If we fail to implement our own rules, or implement them inconsistently, we can — and probably will — be challenged" with legal action through the World Trade Organization, Mandelson told a conference organized by the biotech lobby Europabio.
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