Even if a GM crop can surmount Europe's excessive product registration process, any farmer hoping to plant it must then navigate tortuous, arbitrary and scientifically unjustifiable coexistence regulations.
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Research in our laboratory is funded by MICINN (Ministry of Science and Innovation), Spain (BFU2007-61413); European Union Framework 6 Program – The Pharma-Planta Integrated Project LSH-2002-1.2.5-2; European Union Framework 7 Program-SmartCell Integrated Project 222716; European Union Framework 7 European Research Council IDEAS Advanced Grant (to P.C.) Program-BIOFORCE; Acciones Complementarias (MICINN) BIO2005-24826-E. Centre CONSOLIDER on Agrigenomics funded by MICINN, Spain.
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Ramessar, K., Capell, T., Twyman, R. et al. Going to ridiculous lengths—European coexistence regulations for GM crops. Nat Biotechnol 28, 133–136 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0210-133
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