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Germany publishes online map of GM cultivation

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Germany
July 16, 2008

Source: GMO Compass

Whoever wants to know exactly where GM crops are grown in Germany need only take a look at the internet.

Since the beginning of July, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has complemented its public register of commercially-grown or trial-released genetically modified organisms with an interactive map.

 While allowing easy orientation in the geographical distribution of GM crops country-wide, the resolution also may be sharpened even to the community level. Cultivation areas are listed separately on additional spreadsheets and users may choose between the read-out of commercial or trial fields.

Detailed information on individual fields are given via links to a data base that begins the first introduction of the official register in 2005. The new map also features the possibility of checking for GM cultivation in a given community by entering its postal code.

Official index map on GM cultivation in Germany
http://194.95.226.237/stareg_visual_web/data.do?cachefoi=yes
(Legend in German only)
 

 

 

 

 

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